Research Catalog

Title

Sleeping woman / Herbert Scott.

Author

Scott, Herbert, 1931-

Publication

Pittsburgh, PA : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005.

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Details

Description

88 pages; 22 cm

Note

• Poems.

Contents

Invocation -- Sleeping woman -- The unforgiven -- Mime -- In a field of sunlight -- Dream -- Nude on a kitchen stool -- Late fall, rain -- Bees -- November -- Neighbor -- Night walking -- And the sleet cometh down -- The story of bread -- Night of the fish -- The most terrible and beautiful thing -- Conversation -- The song the stone child sings -- Wolf -- The song the burnt child sings -- Question -- The song the suicide sings -- Mendelssohn at midnight -- The father's song -- Games -- The mother's last song -- She dreams a letter from her son -- The song the old woman sings -- The air we now breathe -- The song the minister sings -- Winter day -- The song the lost children sing -- The way we are now -- The song the assassin sings -- Rain after midnight -- Gnomes -- Bedtime story -- My father's fortune -- Mother at the mirror, 1939 -- Oklahoma pastoral -- My father's bulldogs -- Marshmallows -- Evening dawn -- Hearts -- Farm dogs -- That summer -- The death and resurrection of Jesse James -- Evening, milking -- To death, for my father -- St. Petersburg, my father walks the beach -- Poem -- Snowstorm on Mozart's birthday -- The blue turtle -- In the palm of space -- Poem.

ISBN

0887484301 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004100918

OCLC

• ocm58834883
• SCSB-5178291

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries