Canal Bed - Hardcover

Minton, Helena

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0914086529 ISBN 13: 9780914086529

Publisher: Alice James Books, 1985

Synopsis

Helena Minton, in her first full-length collection, takes us to such varied places as Shuyak Island, Alaska; Ossabaw Island, Georgia; and Lowell, Massachusetts. ...Minton is quite adept at exploring our relationships to nature and its inhabitants. In "On the Tundra," she writes, "Wind stripped us down/to our walking scent,/strong as the ocean's,/a texture to our flesh/only the bears' teeth could know." Overall, this is a fine, full-fledged beginning for an extremely gifted poet.

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The Abandoned Mill
Artifacts
The Bloodstone
Bread
Burning The House
By The Merrimack
The Canal Bed
Dogs Named After Islands
Driving Home From Work
The Field By The Tew-mac Airport
For Bradley Sargeant
From The Same Cloth
Ghosts In The Garden
Housekeeping
The Hunt
In The Underworld
The Institutions On Our Block
Legend
Letter
The Locket
Maps
Minus Tide
The Mountains Of Ten Thousand Smokes
Ninth Month
On The Tundra
Persephone
Prepare
Presences
The Riverbank
The Roses
Sitka Spruce
Taboo
Two Views Of Plymouth
Until It Ends
Vessel
Visit With My Mother
Whatever Is Inside
When I Get Up In The Morning I Don't Know Who I Am
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

Edition details

• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0914086529
• ISBN 13: 9780914086529
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 71