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Flying at night : poems 1965-1985

Call Number

  • 811 K82 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005, c1985.

Physical Description

142 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents

  • Selecting a reader
  • First snow
  • An old photograph
  • The constellation Orion
  • The salesman
  • Old soldiers' home
  • Self-portrait at thirty-nine
  • Christmas Eve
  • Visiting mountains
  • The leaky faucet
  • A frozen stream
  • Living near the rehabilitation home
  • Late February
  • A drive in the country
  • Spring plowing
  • Sitting all evening alone in the kitchen
  • Sure signs
  • A summer night
  • In a country cemetery in Iowa
  • The man with the hearing aid
  • The very old
  • Walking beside a creek
  • Book club
  • At the end of the weekend
  • Uncle Adler
  • In the corners of fields
  • How to make rhubarb wine
  • Late lights in minnesota
  • The afterlife
  • A widow
  • So this is Nebraska
  • Fort Robinson
  • How to foretell a change in the weather
  • Snow fence
  • In an old apple orchard
  • An empty place
  • After the funeral : cleaning out the medicine cabinet
  • The grandfather cap
  • Shooting a farmhouse
  • Beer bottle
  • Sleeping cat
  • North of Alliance
  • Late September
  • Carrie
  • For a friend
  • Grandfather
  • Looking for you, Barbara
  • Pocket poem
  • Moles
  • Notes on the death of Nels Paulssen, farmer, at the ripe old age of 93
  • Advice
  • After my grandmother's funeral
  • A hot night in wheat country
  • P.M
  • Abandoned farmhouse
  • The blind always come as such a surprise
  • Furnace
  • West window
  • Boarding house
  • A letter from Aunt Belle
  • At the ba