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Breathing the West : Great Basin poems / Liane Ellison Norman.

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Description

93 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Working lives series

Uniform Title

Working lives series (Huron, Ohio)

Subject

Genre/Form

Poetry

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Contents

I. Grand opera at 8,850 feet -- Rain shadow -- Fathom -- Knitting needle -- First journals -- Bogalusa romance, 1932 -- Bravado -- Waiting -- Nearby the graves -- Great Basin Experiment Station, 1938 -- Philadelphia flat -- When I was seven -- Canning -- Miss Hardy -- Ecology of sisters -- Mother sewing -- Tectonics -- Alibi.
II. We'd come from Cornwall -- Cemetery -- The Great Basin -- August 6, 1945 -- Germination -- Practical men -- Alpine cabin -- On top -- Cleaning house before moving -- Treasure -- Plenitude -- Rules -- Wilson R. Thornley -- An old woman of uncertain memory -- Home economics -- The mountain groans -- he Scholastic Aptitude Test -- Breathing the west.
III. Short stories of short lives -- Tall tales in Utah -- Snow in 1939 -- Washing windows -- Long johns -- Washing -- Braided rug -- Rock Island Line to Omaha, Union Pacific to Ogden -- Mt. Ogden -- Water witch -- What she lost last -- Inheritance -- Landslide on Rt. 65 -- Roundtrip -- Taking -- Flick of a bird -- Knuckle bones.
IV. Sue's bones on Sioux Island -- I love the names of things -- Pruning roses in March -- Reading Jane Eyre on my wedding day in Inverness, CA -- In 2010 -- Naming -- Accidental orchard -- The undressing -- So good a chair -- Found amber -- Back yard in late Spring -- Paper dolls -- Mother's cookie sheet -- If stars -- Lightning -- Falling -- Tree.

ISBN

OCLC

810318692

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library