Bathing in the River of Ashes

by Griffin, Shaun T.

• ISBN13: 9780874173314
• ISBN10: 0874173310
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr

Summary

Shaun Griffin's poetry embraces his deep convictions and concerns about the marginalized lives of the downtrodden and the hungry world-wide.

Author Biography

Virginia City poet, editor, and translator Shaun T. Griffin operates an education program for homeless children and youth. He has written four other books of poetry and edited by two poetry collections, Desert Wood and Torn by Light, both published by the University of Nevada Press.

Table of Contents

Nevada No Longer	3	(20)
October in Battle Mountain	3	(1)
After Lunch at the Blueberry Cafe: Las Vegas, 1994	4	(2)
Hawthorne	6	(2)
The Meyer Cabin, Jarbidge	8	(1)
At the Old Santa Fe Club in Goldfield	9	(2)
Tumbleweeds and Toenails: Weed Abatement in Silver Springs	11	(1)
Nevada No Longer	12	(2)
On the Death of the Culture Dog, Nevada's Last Bookstore	14	(2)
The New Western Prairie	16	(1)
First Cast, Late December, Pyramid Lake	17	(1)
Magpie Funeral	18	(1)
Geiger Grade	19	(4)
Those People	23	(32)
Tetherball	23	(1)
They Go Gathering Pine Nuts	24	(1)
First and Last Things	25	(2)
La Desterrada	27	(1)
Un moreno en la cocina	28	(1)
A Brown Man in the Kitchen	29	(1)
The Border Ink	30	(1)
This Is Not Love's Offering	31	(1)
Postscript to Chiapas	32	(2)
The Ring of Chains	34	(2)
"Seems I'm All I've Got Anymore"	36	(1)
Manumission	37	(1)
Madonna in Traffic	38	(2)
Family	40	(2)
Visiting Day	42	(1)
Trash Run	43	(1)
The Somali Cab Driver Tells of Ethnic Cleansing: Hart Senate Building, Washington, D.C.	44	(2)
At the River's Edge	46	(1)
black english vernacular	47	(1)
Until They Come Home	48	(2)
Those People	50	(1)
The Stonecutter	51	(2)
Bathing in the River of Ashes	53	(2)
Acknowledgments	55