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Title

For the sake of the light : new and selected poems / Tom Sexton.

Author

Sexton, Tom, 1940-

Publication

Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Details

Description

xiii, 192 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This collection of new and selected poems by the former poet laureate of Alaska, Tom Sexton, opens a door on the essence of life in Alaska and Maine. Sexton divides his time between the two states, and he captures here the small but powerful sensual details of day-to-day life in these contrasting, yet similar, environs."--BOOK JACKET.

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Contents

New Poems -- Eiders -- Passamaquoddy Bay -- Lubec, Maine -- Night-Herons -- At East Machias -- In Waldo County, Maine -- Crossing the Blueberry Barrens -- A Harvard Millerite Ascends -- Uncle Eli Glover Moving -- The Banishment of Saint Columba -- Trawl -- Arnprior, Ontario -- On the Empire Builder Heading West -- Burial Ground -- The Emperor -- Broad Pass, September -- Cow Parsnip -- Mountain Bluebirds -- Beluga Point -- Cottonwood Seed -- Porcupine -- At the Turning of the Season -- That Other World -- Summer Waterfall -- Butterfly Lake -- Juncos -- Snow Buntings -- Steller's Jay -- Steller's Sea Cow, 1742-1768 -- Ursus Maritimus, the Polar Bear -- Driving Toward Nenana -- Cottonwood -- Mountain Lake -- Waling the Marsh -- Mew Gulls -- Snowy Owl -- Looking to the West -- Brown Creeper -- A Necessary Poem -- A Snowy Morning in May -- The Man Who Learned Dena'ina -- Clear and Cold -- Two Ravens in a Tree -- Tugs -- Under Polaris -- Dawson City, Yukon Territory -- Sings of Spring -- Wild Swans -- Saint Lucia's Day -- The Kite Flyers -- Redpolls -- The Iris Hunters -- From Terra Incognita (1974) -- Terra Incognita -- Uncle Paul -- Astoria -- At Daybreak -- December -- From Late August on the Kenai River (1991) -- Poolshark -- Anchorage -- Homer -- Trapper Creek -- The Wedding of Cecelia Demidorf -- Compass Rose -- Nikolaevsk -- Saint Marys -- On Reading Wang Wei -- Late August on the Kenai River -- Open Season -- Two Poems for the Solstice -- Harvest -- From A Bend Toward Asia (1993) -- Kodiak -- Yakutat -- El Dorado -- Chitina -- Gulkana Berry Pickers -- The Princess Line -- Chenega -- Cygnus -- -60 -- De Rerum Natura: or Of Nature's Things -- In the Snow -- Ritual -- Waiting for Spring -- Aleutians -- Iris -- Extending the Range -- Springs -- After the August Rains -- Wolves -- Pass Creek -- Hurricane -- Walking to the Beaver Pond with My Wife -- On the Russian River -- The Marsh in Spring -- Sweet Spring Grasses -- Crows on Bare Branches -- Wind -- Muskeg -- From A Blossom of Snow (1995) -- Naming -- Winter Landscape -- Burnet -- Lin He-Jing -- Towns -- Lament -- King Island -- Beluga -- Pleiades -- Transformations -- Marsh Violets -- Crows -- Homage to Neidecker -- Fiddlehead -- From Leaving for a Year (1998) -- Thinking of Tu Fu on a Summer Evening -- Leaving for a Year -- Crossing the Divide -- At Feng-Hsiang -- Poem Begun on Mother's Day -- Portage La Prairie -- Melting Snow -- From Autumn in the Alaska Range (2000) -- On the Death of A Homeless Man -- Rowing Toward the Spirit World -- For Art and Anna on Their Wedding Day -- Spirit Houses at Tazlina -- The Alaska Range -- The Cross Fox -- Rowan Tree -- A Blessing -- Landscape -- A Letter to Tu Fu -- Touch-Me-Not -- Solstice -- In Glacial Light -- The Bear that Visits Our Cabin -- Willow Ptarmigan -- Lynx -- Blue Flag -- Wilson's Warblers -- The Mountains in Winter -- Winter Solstice -- The Gift of Snow -- Winter Finch -- Denali -- Poem About the Moon -- Rising from the Dark -- April -- Poem Written Near Hurricane -- Autumn in the Alaska Range -- Numen -- Paradise Valley -- Setosa -- Epitaph -- For the Sake of the Light -- From World Brimming Over (2003) -- By an Abandoned Railroad Line -- In the Kitchen -- Butcher Bird -- American Dippers -- Pastoral -- Kinglet -- At Fort Egbert -- Nearing Solstice -- Bohemian Waxwing -- At Dusk -- Teslin Lake, Y.T. -- A Flicker's Nest -- The Mountains -- Blueberries.

ISBN

• 9781602230507 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 1602230501 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

• 2008046357
• 40016541048

OCLC

• 263994221
• ocn263994221
• SCSB-5464367

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries