Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Kumin, Maxine

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9780140586435: Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief: New and Selected Poems

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140586431 ISBN 13: 9780140586435

Publisher: Penguin books, 1989

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400-meter Freestyle
The Absent Ones
Address To The Angels
After Love
The Agnostic Speaks To Her Horse's Hoof
Amanda Dreams She Has Died And Gone To The Elysian Fields
Amanda Is Shod
The Amanda Poems, Sels.
Anger
Apostrophe To A Dead Friend
The Appointment
At The End Of The Affair
Beans
Birthday Poem
Body And Soul: A Meditation
Brushing The Aunts
By Heart
Casablanca
Caught
Changing The Children
Continuum: A Love Poem
Country House
Creatures
The Death Of Uncles
Despair
The Dreamer, The Dream
The End Of The Eating Of Grasses
The Envelope
The Eternal Lover
The Excrement Poem
Extrapolations From Henry Manley's Pie Plant
Eyes
The Faint-hearted Suicide
The Fairest One Of All
Family Reunion
Father's Song
February
Feeding Time
The First Rain Of Spring
The Food Chain
For A Shetland Pony Brood Mare Who Died In Her Barren Year
For My Great-grandfather: A Message Long Overdue
For My Son On The Highways Of His Mind
Fraulein Reads Instructive Rhymes
Going To Jerusalem
The Grace Of Geldings In Ripe Pastures
Halfway
Heaven As Anus
Hello, Hello Henry
The Henry Manley Blues
Henry Manley Looks Back
Henry Manley, Living Alone, Keeps Time
The Hermit Goes Up Attic
The Hermit Has A Visitor
The Hermit Meets The Skunk
The Hermit Picks Berries
The Hermit Poems, Sels.
The Hermit Prays
The Hermit Wakes To Bird Sounds
History Lesson
How It Goes On
How It Is
A Hundred Nights
In April, In Princeton
In Memoriam P.w., Jr., 1921-1980: Out-of-the-body Travel
In Memoriam P.w., Jr., 1921-1980: Retrospect In The Kitchen
In Memoriam P.w., Jr., 1921-1980: The Incest Dream
In Memoriam P.w., Jr., 1921-1980: The Man Of Many L's
In Memoriam P.w., Jr., 1921-1980: The Unfinished Story
In That Land
In The Pea Patch
In The Root Cellar
In The Uneasy Sleep Of The Translator
Insomnia; To Hear The Owl Is The Poets' Perogative
Itinerary Of An Obsession
The Jesus Infection
Joppa Diary: January 25th
Joppa Diary: June 15th
Joppa Diary: May 10th
The Journey: For Janet At Thirteen
July, Against Hunger
The Knot
Late Snow
Leaving My Daughter's House
Life's Work
Lines Written In Library Of Congress After Cleaneth Brooks
Living Alone With Jesus
The Longing To Be Saved
The Lovers Leave By Separate Planes
Making The Connection
Making The Jam Without You
Morning Swim
A Mortal Day Of No Surprises
Mud
The Mummies
My Father's Neckties
Never
Night, The Paddock, Some Dreams
Nightmare
The Nightmare Factory
Notes On A Blizzard
On Being Asked To Write A Poem For Centenary Of Civil War
On Digging Out Old Lilacs
One Small Death In May
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief
Pairing The Geese On My Forty-ninth Birthday
Parting
The Pawnbroker
Peeling Fence Posts
Poem Found In The New Hampshire Dept. Of Agriculture Weekly
The Poets Observe The Absence Of God From The St. Louis Zoo
The Presence
Progess Report
Prothalamion
Purgatory
Quarry, Pigeon Cove
Regret
Rejoicing With Henry
Relearning The Language Of April
Remembering Pearl Harbor At The Tutankhamen Exhibit
The Retrieval System
Revisiting The Macdowell Colony
Running Away Together
Seeing The Bones
The Selling Of Slaves (lexington, Kentucky)
Sisyphus
Sleep
Song For Seven Parts Of The Body
Spending The Night
Sperm
Splitting Wood At Six Above
Stones
Stopped Time In Blue And Yellow
The Summer Of The Watergate Hearings
Sunbathing On A Rooftop In Berkeley
The Survival Poem
Territory
Thinking Of Death And Dogfood
The Thirties Revisited
This Day Will Self-destruct
To An Astronaut Dying Young
To Swim, To Believe (centre College, Danville, Kentucky)
Turning To
The Vealers
Watering Trough
We Are
Whippoorwill
The Widow
Woodchucks
Young Nun At Bread Loaf
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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