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- UNDERGROUND RIVERS
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
"With rare insight, clarity, and grace, Peggy Shumaker charts both the minutiae of miniature lives and the grand and cosmic movements affecting earth's more imposing denizens. She tracks the profound and subtle dislocations or illuminations of self inspired by the closest regard of our natural world. This volume brims with the gifts and losses, struggles and triumphs that the poet gleans from nature, and which both instruct and sustain us all. Bearing an exquisite beauty and purity, these poems soar." -- Maurya Simon
Table of Contents
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- Frontmatter
- pp. 3-8
- Section I. Hunger on the Wing
- Too Soon After Rain
- p. 15
- Night Blooming Jasmine
- pp. 16-17
- Underground Rivers
- pp. 18-21
- Pantano Wash
- pp. 22-23
- Owls’ Cough Balls
- pp. 28-30
- Hunger on the Wing
- p. 34
- Section II. The Story of Light
- Two Thousand Cranes
- p. 37
- The Story of Light
- pp. 38-39
- Bear Plan, Brooks Range
- pp. 42-45
- Orange Peel
- pp. 46-48
- Baku, Who Feeds on Bad Dreams
- pp. 50-51
- Morning Aurora
- pp. 52-53
- Section III. Camouflage
- Snowflake Eel
- pp. 59-60
- Camouflage
- pp. 61-62
- Green Sea Turtles
- pp. 63-65
- Crossing the Pacific
- pp. 67-74
- Section IV. Grace
- Avalanche Lily
- pp. 77-78
- What to Count on
- p. 79
- What Will Remain
- pp. 80-81
- Easter, Grave Tending
- pp. 91-92
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597097628
Related ISBN(s)
9781888996500
MARC Record
OCLC
868219144
Pages
96
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No