Long journey: contemporary Northwest poets
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Publication Date
c2006
Language
English
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From the Book
Corners of the mouth / Jan Lee Ande
A remedy, withheld / Jan Lee Ande
Where we messed up / Ginger Andrews
Imaginary Islands / Judith Barrington
Souls under water / Judith Barrington
Piano / John Barton
Warhol / John Barton
Idaho compline / Bruce Beasley
Self-portrait in ink / Bruce Beasley
People walking in fog / Marvin Bell
"Why do you stay up so late?" / Marvin Bell
Grown men / James Bertolino
Lautrec / Linda Bierds
Memento of the hours / Linda Bierds
Shawl: Dorothy Wordsworth at eighty / Linda Bierds
Three trees / Linda Bierds
Van Leeuwenhoek, 1675 / Linda Bierds
House of Gathering / Anne Caston
Lessons from the Natural World / Anne Caston
Departures: last flight from Fairbanks / Anne Caston
Homebody / Kevin Craft
Janus-Igenuous / Kevin Craft
To err / Kevin Craft
Incense / Kevin Craft
Ice-fog / Lorna Crozier
Shadow / Lorna Crozier
Melanoma / Lorna Crozier
Walking into the future / Lorna Crozier
Night of my conception 1 / Lorna Crozier
Show up (and more) / Olena Kalytiak Davis
Francesca can too stop thinking about sex, reflect upon her position in poetry, write a real Sonnet / Olena Kalytiak Davis
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes" / Madeline DeFrees
Precarious / Alice Derry
Do not forget my name / Candice Favilla
Seedtime / Candice Favilla
Capitulations / Candice Favilla
Bull's-eye / Tess Gallagher
Choices / Tess Gallagher
Not a sparrow / Tess Gallagher
Weather report / Tess Gallagher
Cleaning a rainbow / Gary Gildner
Happiness Jazz / Gary Gildner
Gig / Gary Gildner
Sonnet / Michele Glazer
Historic House, Astoria / Michele Glazer
Map / Michele Glazer
At the edge of everything crackling / Patricia Goedicke
Six short ones / Patricia Goedicke
Question on the floor / Patricia Goedicke
When Kali dances the Earth aroung / James Grabill
Walk she takes / Neile Graham
Graves and Churchyards Cairns and Cairns / Neile Graham
Two blue elephants / Catherine Greenwood
Poem for the end of the century / John Haines
Legend / John Haines
For the Homestead friends / John Haines
Comb / Kathleen Halme III
Drift and pulse / Kathleen Halme III
What self / Kathleen Halme III
Lessons from thieves / Sam Hamill
New York poem / Sam Hamill
A day like this / Jerry Harp
Creature quotation / Jerry Harp
Cutting her out from the flock / Jana Harris
About these trumpeters that line my walls / Jana Harris
On the origin of Blind-Boy Lilikoi / Garrett Hongo
Meaning / Christopher Howell
First touch / Christopher Howell
New Orpheus / Christopher Howell
Steelhead almost / Henry Hughes
Guarding the dump / Henry Hughes
Together in the ice-storm / Henry Hughes
From the Winter of Bridges / Lawson Fusao Inada
Bird that fell to the ground / Laura Jensen
Four Summer outfits / Laura Jensen
Flag January 1999 / Laura Jensen
Robins in the dark / Laura Jensen
Three Cafes / Jonathan Johnson
Surplus / Jonathan Johnson
A winter fairytale / Arlitia Jones
Old age / Eve Joseph
Avalanche / Eve Joseph
Surrealism / Richard Kenney
Rear view / Richard Kenney
Pathetic Valley / Richard Kenney
Shall I compare thee to appearances? / Richard Kenney
Turbulence / Richard Kenney
Feast / Michael Kenyon
What (War 2003- ) / Joanna Klink
Open land / Joanna Klink
Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy / Joanna Klink
War / Patrick Lane / Howl / Patrick Lane
Light next door / Dorianne Laux
Can a fire burn forever? / Dorianne Laux
Easter, 1999 / Dorianne Laux
A measure of desolation : February 2005 / Ursula K. Le Guin
Watching a fractal set / Ursula K. Le Guin
Describe book blurbs to Nationalism / Tod Marshall
Describe wildflowers to ethics / Tod Marshall
God the Synecdoche in His Holy Land / Linda McCarriston
Public poem in the first person / Linda McCarriston
Orphan's consolation / Frances McCue
Let's say what's always left unsaid / Robert McDowell
1936 Hiroko's Passage / Robert McDowell
Ballad for the Blue Moon Tavern / Colleen J. McElroy
Fourth of July, B.C. / Heather McHugh
Impolitic / Heather McHugh
Sampling / Heather McHugh
Back to B.C. / Heather McHugh
Song of the Saxifrage to the Rock / Don McKay
Stess, Shear, and Strain Theories of Failure" / Don McKay
Specific Gravities: #76 (Marble) / Don McKay
Astonished / Don McKay
Conviction / George McWhirter
On sending out our kids again / George McWhirter
Girlfriends / Joseph Millar
Junkyard / Joseph Millar
Elders / Joseph Millar
Hansel and Gretel's father explains / Joseph Millar
Origami Dove / Susan Musgrave
Room where they found you / Susan Musgrave
Out of time / Susan Musgrave
From Hand Luggage a memoir in verse / P.K. Page
Ah, by the Golden Lilies / P.K. Page
Second letter of St. Paul on the Human Genome Project / Suzanne Paoloa
From Patient 6 / Suzanne Paoloa
Four swans / Greg Pape
Empress / Miranda Pearson
Anagrammer / Peter Pereira
Devil's Dictionary of Medical Terms / Peter Pereira
For the first crow with West Nile Virus to arrive in our state / Lucia Perillo
Viagra / Lucia Perillo
Voluptuaries / Paulann Petersen
Apologia Pro Vita Sua / Steven Price
Upon the deliberation of their Domestic Policy / Steven Price
Penmanship / Jarold Ramsay
Everything is a metaphor / Carlos Reyes
Skin / Katrina Roberts
Hunger / Katrina Roberts
Door / Stan Sanvel Rubin
Man on deck / Stan Sanvel Rubin
Travelling one way / Vern Rutsala
Looking for work / Vern Rutsala
New God / Jay Ruzesky
Medicine-Meeting, Hoopa, 1994 / Ralph Salisbury
We knew them / Ralph Salisbury
Bucket / Maxine Scates
Vice / Maxine Scates
High in the bamboo / Peter Sears
On the Empire Building Heading West / Tom Sexton
Swans, where we don't expect them / Peggy Shumaker
Forgbidden fruit / Martha Silano
Gauguin in Oregon / Floyd Skloot
Brahms in delirium / Floyd Skloot
Key / Esta Spalding
Mrs. Barlowe's Plum Tree / Esta Spalding
Train window / Esta Spalding
Watering the orchids / Primus St. John
Batey Tumba
Primus St. John
Neighbors / Clemens Starck
Girl from Panama / Clemens Starck
Grogginess / Lisa M. Steinman
Halting meditation / Lisa M. Steinman
On the boulders of Inanity / Sandra Stone
Light years / Joan Swift
Steelhead / Joan Swift
Touch Gallery: Joan of Arc / Mary Szybbist
Knocking or nothing / Mary Szybbist
Day Lady Di died / Sharon Thesen
You People / Nance Van Winckel
Simone Weil at the Renault Factory (1935) / Nance Van Winckel
Up the steps of the Capitol / Nance Van Winckel
Sonnet: "Sweetest bleeding ..." / Karen Volkman
Sonnet: "Bitter seed ..." / Karen Volkman
Sonnet: "Nothing was ever ..." / Karen Volkman
What the stones say / David Wagoner
Desire / David Wagoner
For an Old Woman at the Gate / David Wagoner
Thoreau and the Quagmire / David Wagoner
Appalachian Midrash / Emily Warn
Kuf: Mnemonic / Emily Warn
Mukilteo Ferry / Ingrid Wendt
Y / John Witte
After we received the News fo the 100-mile wind / Caolyne Wright
For one who prays for me / Robert Wrigley
News / Robert Wrigley
Letter to a young poet / Robert Wrigley
Kissing Booth / Derk Wynand
Reined in / Derk Wynand
Busted / Patricia Young.
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9780870710988
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