A Step in the Dark: Poems - Softcover

Behrendt, Stephen C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 092281127X ISBN 13: 9780922811274

Publisher: Mid List Pr, 1996

Synopsis

A Step In The Dark is Stephen Behrendt's second volume of poetry. In the poem called "Alone in London" he writes: "Love alone across the Atlantic is harder, /but love no less if anything it's more/Everything reminds, all that we should see together: the geese at Kew, / the heron in the tree, squawking as it springs, /the horses in Hyde Park, the umbrellas/at Brighton, flapping tn cool breeze / At night I read till after midnight, /the breeze filling my small room/ through the sheers, switch off my light, / turn to the wall in my narrow bed, /and sleep a deep and dreamless sleep/ until the morning light reminds me/how I am still alone, and Incomplete". Hilda Raz writes that Behrendt's poetry is "Passionate and witty... recollected in tranquillity, presented with the small measure of detachment that Wordsworth recommends.

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Alone In London
Aspiration
At The Lake At Kew Gardens
Attic Window
Black Rhinos In St. Louis
Bull Thistles
Committee
Cornfields
Correspondence
Coyote
Crossing Iowa On Amtrak
Crows
Dance
The Dull Lecture
Enigmatic Variations On Dead Birds
False Alarm
For The Owl
Going To The Barn
Ice Fishing
If I Never Say
Jaffrey Center Cemetery
Kew Gardens
Letter
The Long Fly
Louise And The Virgin
Marking Our Losses In Maple
Mt. Moriah Dawn
Norway Maples At The Reflecting Pool
November Elegy
October Squirrels
Persephone In Nebraska
Portrait Miniature
Purple Coneflowers
Reading The News I Had Expected
Research Trip
The Ruts Of The Oregon Trail
Shelley's Dead
Snow Geese
To The Young Man From The East Coast Who Has Inquired About Graduate..
The Tower
Tulips
Virgin Pine
Waiting In Union Station
Welcome Back
The Wind
Wreckage
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Mid List Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 092281127X
• ISBN 13: 9780922811274
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 69