Research Catalog

Title

Rebirth of wonder : poems of the common life / David M. Johnson ; foreword by V.B. Price.

Author

Johnson, David M., 1939-

Publication

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

xxi, 148 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Mary Burritt Christiansen poetry series

Uniform Title

Mary Burritt Christiansen poetry series.

Contents

Midwest -- Third generation -- Patriarch in the midwest -- Dakota territory -- Birthright -- Protestant ethic -- Migrations -- Brotherly advice in the 1950s -- A time of amateurs -- Changing times -- Mother at ninety -- Handkerchief -- Night song -- The gift -- One-wheel trailer -- Sopa -- Tourist -- Bilingual means having two tongues -- Processional -- Tlaquepaque -- Marias -- El Dia del Muerto -- A Machete for thorn and prickly pear -- Face to face -- Day before Christmas -- Jesus (Jesse) Chavez and neighbors -- Nuevo Laredo -- This is a cup -- One afternoon in Tlaquepaque -- Albuquerque's Mt. Calvary cemetery -- Jemez mountains -- Door-to-door Chile -- February in new Mexico -- First love -- The city limits -- Collecting : a modern paradigm -- Sarah's songs -- Grandfather tree -- Winter in Atlantic City 1970 -- Sitting on the world -- Healing -- State fair -- Connection -- Father and daughter backpacking -- Requiem on the Oregon coast -- Rain in Albuquerque -- End of autumn -- Roots -- Winter -- Anniversary -- Winter on the Mediterranean -- Women in a Spanish fishing village -- Spanish photograph -- Sex in Scotland -- Gino's in Stonehaven -- Reverie in Sweden -- The almond in winter -- Ancient deities -- Innocence -- Eros -- The Greek legacy -- Arkadi monastery -- Leaving crete -- Topless on Santorini -- The gift of language -- Lourdes of the Aegean -- Drum majors in Istanbul -- Hagia Sophia -- Crossing borders -- Mexican pharmacy -- Salt water -- North and south -- Markets -- Old and new -- Second-class bus -- Isla de Janitzio -- Spring break in Mazatlan -- Paradise -- Roadkill -- Maps -- Mazatlan airport -- Timing is everything -- The dust of Mexico -- Labyrinth -- En route to school in the east -- Daughter of Eve -- How would you like it, dad? -- Mastectomy -- Take, for example, Ralph -- Neighbors is neighbors -- After a storm on the Costa del Sol -- Millennium two thousand -- Wondering about things -- Letter to Maia on her birthday -- Bird watching -- Spring rites -- A season without God -- Epiphany -- Emergence.

ISBN

• 0826339751 (alk. paper)
• 9780826339751 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006031821
• 9780826339751

OCLC

• OCM71582073
• SCSB-5320347

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries