From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry (Oregon Literature Series) - Hardcover

St. John, Primus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870713752 ISBN 13: 9780870713750

Publisher: Oregon State University Press, 1993

Synopsis

An anthology of Oregon poetry from Native American tribal lyrics to the present.

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What The Moon Said by Paula Gunn Allen
A Double Life by Dori Appel
Racing Snakes by Diane Averill
Skill Of The Heart by David Axelrod
We Call Them Savage by Margaret Jewett Bailey
Flying by Alison Baker
The Wreck by Henry H. Baldwin
Logging Trestle by Mary Barnard
Roots by Mary Barnard
A Choctaw Chief Helps Plan A Festival In Memory Of Pushmatah by Jim Barnes
Winter Fog Along The Willamette 1 by Tim Barnes
Winter Fog Along The Willamette 2 by Tim Barnes
Beating The Dog by Judith Barrington
My Digging Stick: Atsipeeten & Her Grandmother Intetah by Gloria Bird
The Women Fell Like Beautiful Horses 1. Kowtoliks, A Boy by Gloria Bird
Stone Breaker by Verne Bright
Strange Fruit by Verne Bright
Cinderella by Olga Broumas
Right In The Kalavala It Says by Lois Bunse
Puller On The Ann by John Bush
Train Whistles In The Wind And Rain by Henry Carlile
Still Looking Out For Number One by Raymond Carver
Where Water Comes Together With Other Water by Raymond Carver
In Eastern Oregon by Tina Castanares
Three Deer by Tina Castanares
The Floral Apron by Marilyn Mei Ling Chin
Gruel by Marilyn Mei Ling Chin
He Looks For Worms by Linda Christensen
How To Act Male At My Mother's House Over The Holidays by Linda Christensen
Legend Of The Cascades, Sels. by Samuel Asahel Clarke
Crossing Hawthorne Bridge by Glen Coffield
Snow Birds by Susan Isabella Walker Cooke
Pruning Vines by Howard Mckinley Corning
Dinosaurs Of The Hollywood Delta by Gerald Costanzo
Otis Cafe by Tom Crawford
Something Learned About Fish by Kathleen Culligan
Cabbages In The Garden by Walt Curtis
Dependence Day by John Daniel
The Circuit Rider by Mary Carolyn Davies
Traps by Mary Carolyn Davies
War by Mary Carolyn Davies
Proud Riders by Harold Lenoir Davis
The Rain-crow by Harold Lenoir Davis
Horatio Alger (1834-1899) by Madeline Defrees
Scenes Out Of Sequence: What The Coastwise Know by Madeline Defrees
For John Sinclair 1. by Efrain Diaz-horna
For John Sinclair 2. by Efrain Diaz-horna
For John Sinclair 3. by Efrain Diaz-horna
For John Sinclair 4. by Efrain Diaz-horna
Love Song For A Man Whose Mother Killed Herself by Sharon Lura Edens Doubiago
Garage by Albert Drake
Shy Child by Barbara Drake
Stink Ant by Barbara Drake
Praying by Jeremy Driscoll
Between Jobs by Libby A. Durbin
Finding by Alice Ann Eberman
Elk by Willis Eberman
The Journey by Willis Eberman
The Others by Willis Eberman
Forgive Me, Grandma by Helen Emerson
The Raid by William Everson
The Ground War 2/17/91 by William Ferrell
Fireweed by Ethel Romig Fuller
These Are The Strong by Ethel Romig Fuller
At That, The Day Ended Well by Vi (hokenson) Gale
Cape Foulweather by Vi (hokenson) Gale
Old Man, The Sweat Lodge by Phillip William George
Boy In A Cherry Tree by John M. Gogol
My Children Are The Bright Flowers by Cecelia Hagen
At Grandmother's by John Haislip
The Visit by John Haislip
Inheritance by Hazel Hall
Measurements by Hazel Hall
Monograms by Hazel Hall
Memorial Day: 1959, 1. by James Baker Hall
Memorial Day: 1959, 2. by James Baker Hall
Memorial Day: 1959, 3. by James Baker Hall
Memorial Day: 1959, 4. by James Baker Hall
Eels At The Dalles by Kenneth O. Hanson
First Of All by Kenneth O. Hanson
We Assume: On The Death Of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper by Michael S. Harper
The Desert Wife: 10 by Ada Hastings Hedges
The Desert Wife: 12 by Ada Hastings Hedges
The Desert Wife: 3 by Ada Hastings Hedges
Neighbor by Ada Hastings Hedges
Silent Juniper by Ada Hastings Hedges
During The First Three Minutes Of Life by Jim Heynen
God's Creed, Sels. by Ella (rhoads) Higginson
Hate by Ella (rhoads) Higginson
May All Earth Be Clothed In Light by George Parks Hitchcock
Plow-woman In Time Of War by Clara S. Hoff
The High Lead Tree by Frances Johnson Holmstrom
The Shearers by Frances Johnson Holmstrom
Values by Frances Johnson Holmstrom
The Cadence Of Silk by Garrett Kaoru Hongo
Bird Love by Christopher Howell
Umatilla County Statistics by Bertram Wilson Huffman
I Leave The Myths 1 by Joe Hunt
I Leave The Myths 2 by Joe Hunt
Like A Wandering Jew by Carol Imani
The Shovel People by Lawson Fusao Inada
At Tule Lake Camp, Sels. by Shizue Iwatsuki
Returning Home, Sels. by Shizue Iwatsuki
Barracuda by Peter Jensen
Li's Poem, Fr. Three Poems Burnished By Your Waterfall by David Johnson
Vaudeville In The Garden by David Johnson
The Names Of Summer: A War Memory by Harold Leland Johnson
Alien Hardships by Katsuko
Spades In The Dark Soil by Katsuko
Those Who Wrestle With The Angel For Us by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Those Who Wrestle With The Angel For Us by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
A Full Bucket by Ger Killeen
The Sowing Fiddle by Ger Killeen
Klauke, Amy by Lee Crawley Kirk
Recognizable Terrors by Lee Crawley Kirk
With Stars In My Forehead by Lee Crawley Kirk
Feet by Marilyn Krysl
Valentines by Barbara La Morticella
Mona by Jay La Plante
Enemy And Friend by Nela Ladd-bruni
How Could I Be Forgetting by Ben Hur Lampman
An April Fools Day Present For My Daughter Elisabeth by Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Luwit, Part 1: The Grey Quaker by Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Luwit, Part 2: To Walk In Here by Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Ripe Autumn Grapes by Wing K. Leong
The Man With The Hoe by Edwin Markham
A Contrast On Matrimony by Elizabeth Markham
The Foragers by Eleanor H. Matthews
The Gift by Kerry Paul May
Oregon Winter by Jeanne Mcgahey
Carol With Variations, 1936 by Phyllis Mcginley
Exodus For Oregon by Cincinnatus Heine Miller
Pace Implora by Cincinnatus Heine Miller
Have Mercy by Minnie Myrtle Dyer Miller
The Oregon Farmer's Song by John Minto
Horse Chestnut by Gary Miranda
Love Poem by Gary Miranda
Sheep-killer by Ernest G. Moll
Night Shift by Rodger Moody
Benefit Concert, Fr. City Vignettes by Phyllis B. Morden
Dinner Hour, Fr. City Vignettes by Phyllis B. Morden
Social Leader, Fr. City Vignettes by Phyllis B. Morden
Winter City, Fr. City Vignettes by Phyllis B. Morden
Faith by Carrie Blake (rhoads) Morgan
The Old Emigrant Road by Carrie Blake (rhoads) Morgan
Mare by Erik Muller
Old Movie Monsters by Michael Niflis
Thunderstorm by Michael Niflis
Zero Hour In The Factory by Charles Oluf Olsen
Learning The Language From Dad by Verlena Orr
Arriving And Leaving Here by Simon J. Ortiz
Running And Fear by Simon J. Ortiz
Winter Salmon by Anthony Ostroff
January Lambing by Beverly Partridge
Three Hearts Of The Octopus by Walter David Pavlich
No More War, 1945 by Myrna Pena-reyes
Moles by Paulann Petersen
The Moon Recounts The Birth Of The Sun by Paulann Petersen
Square Dance At The Fairgrounds by Amanda Powell
Chinese Laborers by Luther Laurence Dowrick Pratt
Head Logger by Luther Laurence Dowrick Pratt
In Oregon by John Quinn
The Trough At Rockwall Spring by John Quinn
The Kit by Jarold Ramsey
Free Will And The River by Judith Root
Girl Near A Waterfall by William Pitt Root
The Penultimate Labor by William Pitt Root
Fathers And Infants by Lex Runciman
Lela And Others by Vern Rutsala
The World by Vern Rutsala
Come Near The Western Edge, I Try A Last Myth For The Childh by Ralph Salisbury
My Brother's Poem: Vietnamese War 1969 by Ralph Salisbury
Perfume by Maxine Scates
Salem: Two Windows by Maxine Scates
Shallows by Sandra Scofield
Halloween Of The Sudden Hand by Peter Sears
The Lady Who Got Me To Say Solong Mom by Peter Sears
Tejon Pass by Karyl Severson
Daughter 1 by Ellen Shannon
Beautiful Willamette by Samuel Leonidas Simpson
You Asked For It by Floyd Skloot
Bear by Gary Snyder
Hay For The Horses by Gary Snyder
Primus St. John by Susan Spady
Underpants by Susan Spady
The Rocking Chair by Kim R. Stafford
A Sermon On Eve by Kim R. Stafford
Assurance by William Edgar Stafford
Deer Stolen by William Edgar Stafford
Fifteen by William Edgar Stafford
Traveling Through The Dark by William Edgar Stafford
Me And Maloney by Clemens Starck
Slab On Grade by Clemens Starck
A Specimen by Robert Starkey
A Pigeon Poem by Lisa Malinowski Steinman
Forest Sunrise by James Stevens
Sunup Hangover by James Stevens
El Conjunto Fabuloso by Kaz Sussman
Field Burning by William T. Sweet
Catching The Limit by Mark Thalman
Herder by Paul E. Tracy
Horsemeat by Paul E. Tracy
The Plumber by Paul E. Tracy
Strategies To Survive Living In White Towns by Gail Tremblay
The Bachelor's Decision by Anonymous
Drunk For A Week by Anonymous
To The Oregon Emigrants Of 1846 by Anonymous
Conjuring A Basque Ghost by George Andrew Venn
Forgive Us ... by George Andrew Venn
Do You Hear The Women Praying? by Frances Fuller Victor
The Jewel by D. M. Wallace
Clean Dirt by Doyle Wesley Walls
Homework by Doyle Wesley Walls
The Beginning Of The Earth by Sam Wata
Mushroom Picking, I Talk With A Bear by Ingrid Darlene Wendt
Ace Carey And The Bear by Willis White
For San Dwayne Francisco Missing In Action, North Vietnam by Miles Wilson
Blue School by John Witte
Breast Poem by John Witte
Rain 1. by Vincent A. Wixon
Rain 2. by Vincent A. Wixon
Rain 3. by Vincent A. Wixon
Rain 4. by Vincent A. Wixon
Rain 5. by Vincent A. Wixon
First Snow by Charles Erskine Scott Wood
The Poet In The Desert: 62 by Charles Erskine Scott Wood
The Homeless Girl by Henry H. Woodward
A Warrior And The Glass Prisoners 1. The Glass Girl-a Dream by Elizabeth A. Woody
A Warrior And The Glass Prisoners 2. Don't Touch Me When I S by Elizabeth A. Woody
The School Photographer by Victoria Wyttenberg
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0870713752
• ISBN 13: 9780870713750
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 332