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Book

Fires : essays, poems, stories

Call Number

  • 818 C3318 (CEN)

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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.

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