Research Catalog

Title

Still here, still now / Robert Pack.

Author

Pack, Robert, 1929-

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Description

xi, 141 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Robert Pack is one of America's most eminent nature poets; Still Here, Still Now is his nineteenth volume of verse. The first section of the book contains traditional lyrics that celebrate family ties and seek consolations for the passing of personal and evolutionary time. The poems in this group address a named or unnamed auditor in a voice of intimate engagement. Featuring the most narrative selections in the book, the second section consists of fable-like stories, rich with innuendo and implication."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Nature > Poetry
• Families > Poetry
• Happiness > Poetry
• Suffering > Poetry

Contents

I. For You and You -- Another March -- Facing You -- Paul Sees More Light -- Flute Music at Noon -- You Are the One -- The Blue Vase -- Mountain Dawn -- No Reconciling -- Tornado Consolation -- Moonlight Mirrorings -- The Story's End -- Logical Speculation -- Grandson -- Comforting -- II. Short and Tall Tales -- Reincarnation -- Literary Ravens -- Happiness -- Four Guys Cross Montana -- The Stutterer -- Arguing Friends -- The Teacher Shakes Up His Class -- Brothers -- Pride and Laughter -- The Ecstasy -- The King's Dilemma -- Grizzly Prayer -- The Rabbi's Spiel to His Congregation -- Redesigned -- III. Meditations and Forebodings -- Meditation of a Jew -- Moses -- Darwin's Beetle -- Breaking News -- Academic Party -- Rain in August -- Mountain Meditation -- Flourishing Birches -- Wedding Ceremony -- The Peaceable Kingdom -- Afterlife -- Survival -- Choice -- Conundrum -- IV. Landscapes and Self-Portraits -- It's May Again -- Butterfly -- Tamaracks -- Spider -- It's Only Wind -- Bear Grass -- Spring Rain -- Sleepy Dog Blues -- Sunrise -- Sunflower -- Illumination -- Old Man Walking -- Midday Moths -- This Instant Now -- V. Two Epilogues -- The War to End All Wars -- Make-Believe My Muse.

ISBN

• 9780226644158 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0226644154 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007039509
• 40015533434

OCLC

• ocn173368514
• 173368514
• SCSB-5414949

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries