Research Catalog

Title

Concerned attentions / Knute Skinner.

Author

Skinner, Knute, 1929-

Publication

Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland : Salmon Poetry, 2013.

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Details

Description

75 pages; 21 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

Poetry, Modern

Genre/Form

Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Concerned attentions. Green light -- The holy well -- In a restaurant in Nova Gorica -- At Gate No. 7 of the airport at Trieste -- A useful bench -- Windows -- Use -- Rain today -- From inside the window -- Self assessment at eighty -- The cat in the adage -- The power of prayer -- In the Škocjan Caves -- Let us know -- In tourist season -- Variations on a line of verse by Jo Slade -- My cat -- Lover -- The end of the road -- Hope for us all -- Some say -- Wind. The last bus -- Groups -- Hearing the news -- No turning back -- The dead about us -- Wind -- Meetings and partings. Another headache -- Before and behind us -- A coat, a scarf and a purse -- Curtain time - A decent skin -- Dinner -- Dog in the road -- From the bottom of the pot -- The front door -- The green jacket -- Her life story -- Her sister -- The hot dog -- A long good morning -- Me and my big sister -- The monkey puzzle tree -- Morning and afternoon -- Old postures -- Ringing the number -- Routines -- The ruins -- Seafood -- She's back -- The side alter -- Something in the grass -- Taking stock -- Today and tomorrow -- Touching him -- Years later.

ISBN

• 9781908836601 (paperback)
• 1908836601 (paperback)

OCLC

860809536

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library