Research Catalog

Title

Poems for a small planet : contemporary American nature poetry / edited by Robert Pack, Jay Parini.

Publication

[Middletown, Conn.] : Middlebury College Press ; Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pack, Robert, 1929-2023
• Parini, Jay
• Pack, Robert, 1929-

Description

xv, 301 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

A Bread loaf anthology

Uniform Title

A Bread loaf anthology.

Subjects

• 1900-1999
• Poetry
• American poetry > 20th century
• Nature > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Poetry.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Jay Parini and Sandra Alcosser -- What Makes the Grizzlies Dance -- Glory Monster -- Woodpecker -- Approaching August -- Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel / Pamela Alexander -- First Relations -- Antichromatic / Julia Alvarez -- On a Hill above Your House -- Cows / A.R. Ammons -- Standing Light Up -- Looking Way Off -- Somers Point -- First Cold -- White Echo / David Baker -- Sex -- The Yard -- The Deer / Peter Balakian -- Idyll -- The Back Yard -- Ocean / Marvin Bell -- An Old Trembling -- Eastern Long Island -- Nature -- Pulsations -- Further Pulsations / Stephen Berg -- Ritual / Wendell Berry -- From "Sabbaths" / Michael Blumenthal -- Deep Ecology -- Cherries -- The Geologist -- Meditation on Politics at the Quabbin Reservoir / Philip Booth -- Navigation -- March Again -- Seasons / Christopher Buckley -- Rain/Light -- Autumn's End -- Sycamore Canyon Nocturne -- Early Morning -- Ucross, Wyoming / Teresa Gader -- A Season for Hunting -- A Promise / Amy Clampitt -- Green -- North Fork -- Seed -- Shorebirds in Seasonal Plumage Observed Through Binoculars / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- The Chameleon -- Cultivator -- Why There Are No Unicorns / Michael Collier -- Seneca Street -- Consider the Garden -- Landscape / Chard DeNiord -- I Stand beneath the Mountain with an Illiterate Heart -- This Is a Blessing, This Is a Curse -- There Is an Error at the Heart of Desire / Carl Dennis -- Spring -- Tune-up / Rita Dove -- Rusks -- Dissolve -- The Great Piece of Turf / Cornelius Eady -- Drizzle -- Nature Poem -- Too Young to Know / John Engels -- Garden -- In March -- Meadow -- Walking to Cootehill -- Landslide / Carol Frost -- Refusal -- Being -- Sexual Jealousy -- Papilio / Alice Fulton -- A Little Heart to Heart With the Horizon -- A.M.: The Hopeful Monster / Dana Gioia -- Becoming a Redwood -- Rough Country / Pamela White Hadas -- Lion of God in Vermont in May -- Curious Experiments / Donald Hall -- Surface -- Pluvia -- "Winter's asperity mollifies ..." -- "Mount Kearsarge shines ..." / Daniel Halpern -- The Approach -- Annuals / Joy Harjo -- Wolf Warrior / Juan Felipe Herrera -- After All -- We Are Made -- House Is Empty Now -- A Crack inside My Breast / William Heyen -- Grace -- Fur -- Canary -- Wish / Edward Hirsch -- Summer Surprised Us -- In the Midwest -- First Snowfall: Intimations / Roald Hoffmann -- The Bering Bridge / Jonathan Holden -- Face Up -- September: Nederland, Colorado / Garrett Kaoru Honpo -- Stomping With Pettit on the Battenkill / David Hiddle -- The Snow Monkey Argues with God -- Inside the Hummingbird Aviary -- Perspective -- Visit of the Hawk / Richard Jackson -- The Other Day -- For a Long Time I Have Wanted to Write a Happy Poem / Mark Jarman -- Wave -- Chimney Swifts / Donald Justice -- Invitation to a Ghost / Richard Kenney -- Millenary -- Lens -- Concrete Delivery by Goose & Gosling Crossing, Late March, Mallett's Bay / Maxine Kumin -- October, Yellowstone Park / Sydney Lea -- The Fish Pond -- Prospect -- Paternity / David Lehman -- Greenhouses and Gardens -- On the Nature of Desire / Gary Margolis -- Autumn Bees on Broccoli Blossoms Gone-by -- On the Way to the Sitter's -- Kicking and Breathing / Paul Mariani -- Landscape with Dog -- Shadow Portrait -- Moonrise as Abstraction -- Mountain View with Figures -- Variations on a Theme by Justice / Charles Martin -- Reflections after a Dry Spell -- What the Dark Proposes / William Matthews -- Names -- The Bear at the Dump -- The Dogs of Montone -- Sentence -- The Rented House in Maine / J.D. McClatchy -- Chott -- Late Night Ode / Christopher Merrill -- Day Lilies: Instructions and an Elegy -- The Bees / John Frederick Nims -- Understanding the Universe -- The Mouse / Jean Nordhaus -- Adirondack Return -- Protecting the Children from Hurricanes -- Bluegrass / Carole Simmons Oles -- The Cedar Waxwing -- The Radioactive Ball / Gregory Orr -- Dark Prayer -- The Gray Fox -- The Cliff -- Meadow in Spring / Robert Pack -- Watchers -- It Would Have Been Enough -- Bounty -- Fathering the Map -- Mountain Ash without Cedar Waxwings / Jay Parini -- Mizzle -- Some Compensation -- Bliss -- Belonging -- Stars Falling / Linda Pastan -- The Birds -- Hardwood -- Beall Mountain Seasonal / Robert Pinsky -- The City Dark -- In Berkeley -- "Everywhere I Go, There I Am" / Stanley Plumly -- Dove -- In Answer to Amy's Question What's a Pickerel -- Dusk Coming on Outside --, New York -- Human Excrement / Wyatt Prunty -- The Offset -- Haying -- The Elbow Tree / Hilda Raz -- For Barbara, Who Brings a Green Stone in the Shape of a Triangle -- Teaching, Hurt / Ira Sadofff -- In the Bog behind My House -- I Join the Sparrows -- Red Tail Sonnet -- On the Job -- Birches, Revisited: October / Sherod Santos -- The Dairy Cows of Maria Christina Cortes -- Of Haloes & Saintly Aspects -- Still Life with Minnows -- Augury / Jane Shore -- Sawdust / Robert Siegel -- Slug -- Turtles -- Silverfish / Tom Sleigh -- Shame / Dave Smith -- The Egret Tree -- Out Whistling -- Fieldswirl, October -- Pulling a Pig's Tail -- Moles in Spring / Gary Snyder -- Night Song of the Los Angeles Basin -- Raven's Beak River at the End / Katherine Soniat -- A Last Warm Day -- A Shared Life / Marcia Southwick -- The Magic Broom -- The Waves / William Stafford -- Gaea -- Entering a Wilderness Area -- Spirit of Place: Great Blue Heron -- Kolob Canyon / Gerald Stern -- Birthday -- Ducks Are for Our Happiness -- Bitter Thoughts / Anne Stevenson -- Salter's Gate -- Cold -- Level Cambridgeshire -- Painting It In / Mark Strand -- Here / Dabney Stuart -- Desolation -- Palm Reader -- Figure on the Edge -- Rumination / Eric Trethewey -- Florilegium -- Resurrection at West Lake -- Reading the Signs -- Near Dawn / Chase Twichell -- Ghost Birches -- Dirt -- The Immortal Pilots -- Snow in Condoland / Mona Van Duyn -- Poets in Late Winter / Marilyn Nelson Waniek -- Abba Jacob and St. Francis -- Dusting / Rosanna Wanen -- The Cormorant -- Man, That Is Born of Woman -- Song / Richard Wilbur -- A Wall in the Woods: Cummington / Nancy Willard -- The Self-Defense of Peaches -- A Little Blessing -- In Praise of the Puffball -- The Wisdom of the Geese / Charles Wright -- Reading Lao Tzu Again in the New Year -- Looking outside the Cabin Window, I Remember a Line by Li Po -- Winter-Worship -- Mondo Henbane / Gary Young -- Four Poems / Paul Zimmer -- Another Place -- Crazy with Love -- What I Know about Owls -- The Brain of the Spider / Robert Pack -- Afterword: Taking Dominion over the Wilderness.

ISBN

• 087451620X
• 0874516218 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^92056909^

OCLC

• 27066285
• SCSB-12169330

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library