Fires : essays, poems, stories
Edition
Vintage Contemporaries ed.
Publication Information
New York : Vintage Books, 1989, c1984.
Physical Description
204 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents
- My father's life
- On writing
- Fires
- John Gardner: the writer as teacher
- POEMS: ONE: Drinking while driving
- Luck
- Distress sale
- Your dog dies
- Photograph of my father in his twenty-second year
- Hamid Ramouz (1818-1906)
- Bankruptcy --The baker
- Iowa summer
- Alcohol
- For Semra, with martial vigor
- Looking for work
- Cheers
- Rogue River jet-boat trip, Gold Beach, Oregon
- July 4, 1977
- TWO: You don't know what love is
- THREE: Morning, thinking of empire
- The blue stones
- Tel Aviv and Life on the Mississippi
- The news carried to Macedonia
- The mosque in Jaffa
- Not far from here
- Sudden rain
- Balzac
- Country matters
- This room
- Rhodes
- Spring, 480 B.C.
- FOUR: Near Klamath
- Autumn
- Winter insomnia
- Prosser
- At night the salmon move
- With a telescope rod on Cowiche Creek
- Poem for Dr. Pratt, a lady pathologist
- Marriage
- The other life
- The mailman as cancer patient
- Poem for Hemingway & W. C. Williams
- Torture
- Bobber
- Highway 99E from Chico
- The cougar
- The current
- Hunter
- Trying to sleep late on a Saturday morning in November
- Louise
- Poem for Karl Wallenda, aerialist supreme
- Deschutes River
- Forever
- STORIES: Distance
- The lie
- The cabin
- Harry's death
- The pheasant
- Where is everyone?
- So much water so close to home.