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On the north slope : poems / Catharine Savage Brosman.

Title
On the north slope : poems / Catharine Savage Brosman.
Author
Brosman, Catharine Savage, 1934-
Publication
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2012.

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Description
129 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Highlights the human experience and the both light and dark responses that come with it.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Poetry
  • American poetry – 21st century.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
I. A commonweath of place : Six cold poems from Colorado ; Winter light -- Snow clouds -- Tree in winter -- Winter sunset, Pike's Peak -- Colorado winds High plains -- North Park -- Alpenglow -- Florissand fossil beds -- On the mesa top -- Driftwood -- Horizon -- Las Campanas Cerro Pedernal At the Circle a ranch -- Three for Patric's eightieth ; Hibernia -- Caledonia -- Britannia -- II. Order under the sun : Amaryllis -- Honey -- Blue heron and blue sky -- Iris -- Garlic -- Cottonwood -- Cabbage -- Yellow-crowned night heron -- Four o'clocks -- Eggs -- Aviary -- Scarlet gilia -- Cheese -- Egret by the pond -- Bluebonnets - Carrots -- Sparrows -- Trees in the park -- III. The scripted fate : Del Rio & Winter Garden -- Blue norther -- For a late cat (I) -- For a late cat (II) -- Evelyn -- For friends of a man who died in a Las Vegas casino -- To a friend whose husband died in the Madrid Airport -- For a friend grieving after and unexpected death -- For one whose husband drowned in the backyard pool -- To a close friend whose father hanged himself -- Edith's party -- The eagle -- On seeing Patric again -- Growing pains -- Abed -- An evening at Eleanor's -- Anniversary -- IV. Themes for the Muses -- At the ballet -- Beaumarchais in the tribunal -- In the Brooklyn Museum -- Liszt in Weimar -- In an English cathedral -- Yeats and Maud Gonne -- L'elisir d'amore -- Anges de Mille in Paris -- Stockholm, June 2000 -- Kim Kum-sum -- At the Art Show -- Themes for piano and poetry ; Lamentation -- Conjecture -- Romance.
ISBN
  • 9780881462739 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 088146273X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2011050538
OCLC
759908101
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library