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The University of Akron Press
- I Have My Own Song For It
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: The University of Akron Press
- Series: Akron Series in Poetry
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I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio gathers together 117 poems by 85 poets for a fresh perspective on the Buckeye State. Not since 1911 has there been a comprehensive collection of poems written about Ohio. And this anthology is especially relevant as Ohio celebrates its 200th year as a state. It could be called Ohio’s bicentennial gift to itself. These poems, written by such celebrated Ohio natives as James Wright and Mary Oliver, and by accomplished if less well known poets like Ruth L. Schwartz and Rachel Langille, offer a virtual tour of people and places in the state, traveling around Ohio’s lakes and rivers, farms and open country, small towns and large cities. In resonant language and compelling imagery, in shapely verse and lines responsive to the moment’s impulse, the poems bring Ohio to its citizens and, beyond the borders of the state, to lovers of poetry everywhere. The perspective may be personal or historical, close-up or wide-ranging, celebratory or otherwise, but each poem becomes part of the state’s legacy passed on to future generations, a collective record of how Ohio appears to itself and to others at the begining of the 21st century.
Table of Contents
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- Beautiful Ohio
- p. xvii
- Along the Waters
- River by River
- pp. 3-4
- Fast Opera
- p. 11
- September, Edgewater Park
- pp. 16-17
- Dorothy with Richard
- p. 19
- Beaver Creek
- p. 20
- Anniversary Poem
- pp. 27-28
- Home in Ohio
- p. 29
- Down Country Roads
- Lost in Ohio
- p. 33
- The Family Farm
- p. 35
- Driving through Ohio
- p. 36
- The Sumac in Ohio
- p. 40
- Ohio Farm House, ca. 1846
- pp. 41-42
- Losing Grace
- pp. 43-44
- Good Friday at the Rookery
- pp. 51-52
- The Amish Farmer’s Daughter
- pp. 53-54
- The Black Walnut Tree
- pp. 56-57
- Stark County Holidays
- pp. 58-59
- Taraxacum Officinale
- pp. 60-61
- Summer of 1912
- p. 62
- The Compost Bin
- p. 63
- Moose Ridge Apple Wine
- pp. 68-73
- Regional Bird
- p. 74
- Rebecca Devanney, 1954–1981
- pp. 75-76
- Roof, Ohio Territory
- p. 77
- Tree Ferns
- p. 79
- Mennonite Funeral in Southwest Ohio
- pp. 80-81
- Homage to the Corn
- pp. 82-83
- Losing Ohio
- p. 84
- Through Small Towns
- Spring Begins in Hinckley, Ohio
- pp. 88-89
- War Brides’ Dinner
- p. 92
- Near Liberty, Ohio
- p. 94
- Nelson Ledges, 1948
- p. 95
- Leading Them Back
- p. 96
- That Summer, Joe, and Prison
- pp. 97-98
- Fall in Reily, Ohio
- p. 101
- At Marietta, Ohio
- p. 105
- Drowning in Ohio
- p. 107
- Black Cat in Byhalia
- pp. 108-110
- Baking Pies
- p. 114
- Basic Writing, Marion Correctional
- pp. 116-117
- Midwest: Ode
- pp. 118-119
- Elegy in the Form of an Invitation
- pp. 122-123
- In the Cities
- Porphyro in Akron
- pp. 127-129
- The Eisenhower Years
- pp. 133-134
- Secrest Arboretum,My Tenth Year in Wooster
- pp. 136-137
- Mary Oliver Would
- pp. 138-139
- In a Steelworker’s Bed
- p. 140
- My Father’s Secret
- pp. 146-147
- Nine of Clubs, Cleveland, Ohio
- pp. 148-150
- A Dock Poem
- p. 151
- East Akron
- pp. 154-155
- Lament for My Brother
- p. 157
- Love Songs for Cleveland
- pp. 158-160
- One for the Rose
- pp. 161-162
- Beyond Even This
- Beyond Even This
- p. 165
- The Buckeye
- pp. 166-167
- Ohio Highway
- pp. 168-169
- German Village
- pp. 170-171
- The Buckeye Sestina
- pp. 179-180
- Ohio Haiku
- pp. 181-182
- John Chapman
- pp. 183-184
- Three Miles from Luckey
- pp. 188-189
- The Breathers
- pp. 190-191
- How We Argue
- pp. 192-194
- Contributors
- pp. 197-211
- Index of Poets and Titles
- pp. 219-221
Additional Information
ISBN
9781935603894
Related ISBN(s)
9781884836824
MARC Record
OCLC
606854791
Pages
221
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-11
Language
English
Open Access
No