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Title

Dirt songs: a plains duet : poems / Twyla M. Hansen and Linda M. Hasselstrom .

Author

Hansen, Twyla.

Publication

Omaha, Neb. : Backwaters Press, 2011

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Details

Additional Authors

Hasselstrom, Linda M.

Description

146 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Poems.

Alternative Title

Plains duet

Contents

Morning fog ; Corn ; Acts of faith ; Ornamentals ; Little bluestem ; Survival ; Early walk, late October ; Wild turkey ; Great horned owl ; Procrastination ; Swiss cheese ; Lettuce ; Shredded wheat ; Green apples ; Pastoral ; Saga ; Work ; Returning to St. Louis, Lewis and Clark see a cow ; Farm story ; My father's war ; Greasy spoon ; Refractions ; After a rain ; Small ; Egg ; Bird ; Opossum ; Swallows ; Leap of faith ; Autumn ; Early December ; Leap second ; My granddaughter sick ; Shadows ; Relativity ; Taking the young child ; Sleep ; Perfection ; My husband's grandmother worked for Willa Cather ; Bread ; Cardinal ; Feeding the hawk ; July ; Remembrance ; August 12 in the Nebraska Sand Hills watching the Perseids meteor shower ; Early winter ; Driving west Ireland in winter ; Solstice, December ; Near the Platte ; New Year's on nine-mile prairie / Twyla M. Hansen -- I ain't blind and this is what I think I see ; Bombing again ; Beltane, Reservation High School ; One afternoon in a Reservation classroom ; Looking for grandmother ; Lost in the city again ; Robbing the poet ; Snowed-in psalm -- Spider woman: Canyon de Chelly ; Story we told each other in Zion ; Taos Pueblo, 1968 ; Ravens' knowledge ; Making the best of it ; Visiting the nursing home ; Instead of a death watch ; My Uncle Harold makes up his mind ; Valentine for my mother ; Cleaning the stove ; Chin hairs ; Studying pumice ; Those Thanksgiving pie-makers ; Bacon, lettuce and tomato ; 1971: across from the packing plant ; 1971: establishing perpetual care at the Locust Grove Baptist Cemetery ; Westie's nightly game ; Home: ending the day ; On this day ; Sister soar ; Finding mohter's jewelry ; Scrubbing cupbroads ; Visiting writer in Rock springs, Wyoming ; News of an April Day ; My mother's cosmos ; Sunday morning ; When a poet dies ; Venue of vultures ; Hawk in my hand ; Signs of civilization ; Relatives who live in my head ; Autochthonous ; Ice skating on the dam ; Primer ; Girls at fourteen ; Wicca ; Lost and found ; How to pick green beans ; Reading the newspaper ; Priests of the prairie ; Morning news on Windbreak Road ; Waiiting for the storm / Linda M. Hasselstrom.

ISBN

• 9781935218241
• 1935218247

OCLC

• ocn765307380
• 765307380

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries