Jason the Sailor (Archaeology of Movies and Books) - Softcover

Wakoski, Diane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876859023 ISBN 13: 9780876859025

Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, 1993

Synopsis

From "His Bedroom Voice":
He leaves a message on our answering machine,

a simple one, plain, expedient, he needs a

letter of recommendation, but as I listen without

much thought/I realize I don't mind anything he asks of me

About this title

About the Author:

Diane Wakoski, who was born in Southern California and educated at University of California, Berkeley, lived and began her poetry career in New York City from 1960-1973. She has earned her living as a bookstore clerk, a junior high school teacher in Manhattan, a library storyteller, a Visiting Writer and, for ten years on-the-road, by giving poetry readings on college campuses. Since 1975, she has been Poet in Residence at Michigan State University, where she continues to teach as a University Distinguished Professor. Her work has been published in more than twenty collections and many slim volumes of poetry since her first book, Coins & Coffins, was published by Hawk's Well Press in 1962. Her selected poems, Emerald Ice, won the William Carlos Williams Prize from the Poetry Society of America in 1989.

Review:

Amaryllis
Beauty And The Beast
Blackjack Sestina
The Blue Jay At The Nearly Empty Feeder
Blue Suede Shoes
Carla Boucher Eats Poppies In Santa Fe
Cellophane Burn
The Chalkboard
A Cloak Of Folded Wings
The Coffee Brush
Dawn Buds
The Deer In Me
A Different Edge
Dogs (2)
Driving Barbara's Shore
The Emerald Tattooed On My Arm
Emeralds
The Evolution Of Morning
Fear Of Women
Foreign Travel
Full Moon Eyes
His Bedroom Voice
House Of Cards
Hummingbirds, Dazzling In From The California Desert
Ice
Imagining Emily's Early Summer Garden
Jason The Betrayer
Light Cap
Lion Mirror
Long-stemmed
Lotto Night
Maplelight
Medea's Chariot
Media, The New Sorceress
Medusa In The City Dump
Moving The Chair
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboyd
Old Garden
Old Jason In San Jose
On The Terrace At Point Dume
Orchid Breath
Ordinary Objects/coils Of Beauty
Pandas
Pansies
Point Dume
Politesse
The Pony Express Rider
Portrait Of A Lady
Red Silk Scarf
The Rosy Corn Goddess
Salt Marsh
Salt-free Talk
Satin
The Sculptor
The Sea
Shoulders
The Silky Islands
Silver Arrows
Silver Coyote Song
The Slap
Snow Hands
Starry, Starry, Windows Of The Soul
Steam
Still Thinking Of Orchids
Sudden Mendenhall Glacier
The Summer Nuthatch Sometimes Hangs Upside-down
Sylvester In The Arugula
T'ai Chi
The Tall Boy
Unlike Stars
Viennese Coffee
Water, Mirrors
What Others Hear
When Canned Peaches Turn Into Maplelight
White Cardamom
White Shirt In The Classroom
Why He Loves John Lennon
Window Moon
Zurbaran
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0876859023
• ISBN 13: 9780876859025
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 197