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Elegies for the water : poems

Title
Elegies for the water : poems / by Philip Lee Williams.
Author
Williams, Philip Lee.
Publication
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Description
102 pages; 23 cm
Genre/Form
Poetry.
Contents
Losing Your Way -- Hearing the Silence -- Hermit -- The Lark Ascending -- Who We Are -- Box Turtle in the Driveway -- Rediscovering the Ivory-Bill -- Roadside Photograph -- Speaking at a Retirement Home -- For My Wife -- Starting Over -- Bread -- The Wood Pile -- Old Fence in the Forest -- Sanctuary -- Removing It -- What You Can Count On -- Blackberrying -- Cicada Days -- Cinnamon Toast -- Creek Toward River -- Please Use Me Up -- Parable of the Heron in Ice -- Adam's Disappointment -- A Promise to My Family -- Sketch for My Last Words -- Throwing Stones in Wildcat Creek -- In Memory of Raymond Andrews -- Something New -- A Reminder of My Animal Past -- Bones -- Fishing at Grayson White's -- The Tides of Wildcat Creek -- Album Leaf -- Path on Path -- Pelvic Bone -- Quiet Times -- Forest Grammar -- Spring Planting -- The Sick Man Visits Wildcat Creek -- The Final Country -- Asking Forgiveness -- Mourning Doves -- Coming Down from Black Rock Mountain By My Old Hermitage, a Stranger Gives Me Rest for the Night and Sets Out Wine -- My Gift of the Moon -- Awakening -- Elegies for the Water -- Moving the Cemetery -- White-Tailed Deer -- Against Fear While Standing In My Woods in March -- A Month before Spring, I Take Stock -- Young and Beautiful -- Planting Near Highway 15 -- Today I Was Afraid Again -- The Sorrow of Mirrors -- For the Coming of Our Days -- Harvesting Clothes -- The Tides of Light -- Offering Myself to the Woods -- Rainy Day Ants -- Making Hay -- The Ruined Farmhouse Fills With Crows Who Go Silent as Rain Comes -- What We Carry -- Table at the Four Seasons -- Right Up to the Fence -- Love Poem -- Realizing Finally That Praise Will Not Come -- The Great Jade Gate Of My Estate -- The Actor -- An Injunction -- For the End of the Last War -- Painting My Bedroom with Stars -- Sunday Morning on the Rocks By the Creek, I Consider the End -- Learning to Grow Old -- The Edge of the Current -- It Was All About Nothing -- Words for the City Poets -- Parable of the Carpenter Bee -- Diplomacy -- Cat in the Piano -- Early Morning, Autumn -- A Message for You.
ISBN
  • 9780881461428 (alk. paper)
  • 0881461423 (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2008042237
  • 99933864234
OCLC
  • ocn258770313
  • 258770313
  • SCSB-5472875
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries