Research Catalog

Title

Through a gate of trees : poems / Susan Jackson.

Author

Jackson, Susan, 1947-

Publication

Fort Lee, N.J. : CavanKerry Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

xvii, 92 pages; 24 cm

Contents

Early morning in the garden -- Praise for washing feel -- In Johore Bohru -- The man who could not talk about the war -- Bringing home potatoes -- Beauty in form -- Remember Rilke -- First spring in a separate house -- Easter weekend -- Ice storm -- This light -- We are learning to dedicate our lives to compassionate and selfless action -- Just like me, these other unknowers -- Three green apples and a pear -- The trial -- Black ice -- Inside out -- Noctiluca -- A boy visits his uncle in Contadora -- Dissection -- The secret history of rock and roll -- By some strange conjunction -- The husband and wife, a fable -- Visiting on cape cod -- Blue -- After the twins are born -- The day she gets her license -- In my daughter's kitchen -- Watching the perseid meteor showers -- The story the reporter told -- What was, what could be -- Fire in the brain -- All day Thursday -- Copperhead -- What I heard at four o'clock -- Who sees them -- Border crossings -- Mother of memory come up from the well -- Poems sometimes come in the way a sea turtle lays her eggs -- I sleep alone in the meticulous night -- Indigo sky, new moon -- The stones belong to the land -- How I got here through a gate of trees -- The sugaring cabin -- At the heart of things -- Night walk -- What the silence feeds -- If ever there was anything too beautiful for this world -- The twittering machine -- Visiting the first Baptist church at easter time -- Gratitude -- The hawks come back -- Sufi dancing -- On the old road.

ISBN

• 9781933880020
• 1933880023

LCCN

2006037266

OCLC

• OCM76064740
• 76064740
• SCSB-5335398

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries