GRRRRR : A Collection of Poems about Bears

by Follett, C. B.

• ISBN13: 9780965701518
• ISBN10: 0965701514
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Table of Contents

The Truth About Bears: Yupik myth
The Truth About Bears	p. 3
The Fisherman	p. 4
The Black Bear	p. 6
Fishing for Grizzlies	p. 7
Bear-Hunger	p. 8
The montana grizzlies	p. 9
Ode to the Bear	p. 11
Wild Strawberries	p. 12
The Biologist Examining Bear Tracks	p. 13
The Search	p. 15
Bear Paw Petroglyphs	p. 16
Purple lupine (watak.ha)	p. 17
The Tale the Bear Left	p. 18
This poem is for bear	p. 19
Ursa Major	p. 21
The Hunter	p. 22
The River	p. 23
Sun Bear	p. 24
Ursus Redeemed by Darkness	p. 25
Walking Up Bears	p. 26
Bear Mother	p. 27
Bear	p. 28
The Bear Emerges	p. 29
As If	p. 30
Baby Pink Nose	p. 32
Elegy for a Bear	p. 34
The Bear	p. 35
Last Bear Poem	p. 36
Sleep Now, His Long Breath Is At Your Shoulder: Ahtna myth
Crazy Jane Meets a Bear	p. 39
Dreaming Bear	p. 40
Sleep Warm	p. 41
Bears at Raspberry Time	p. 42
The Brown Bear	p. 44
Bear Dance	p. 45
What's a Bear For?	p. 46
Adumbrations	p. 47
The Bear-Spring	p. 48
Bears	p. 49
Letter to Beowulf	p. 50
Winter Bears	p. 52
My Friend the Bear	p. 54
Song Beginning in Big Sleep	p. 55
Winter Sleep	p. 56
Bear With Me	p. 57
How to Trap a Bear	p. 58
East Moriches, NY	p. 60
Reason in Its Dreams	p. 61
How the bear came to me	p. 62
Bear	p. 64
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me	p. 66
The Bear	p. 67
All That Is Left Is To Name Him: Central Yupik myth
The Philosophy Professor Discusses the Nature of the Self-Conscious Mind	p. 71
Pigbear	p. 72
The Beginning	p. 73
Bear Warning	p. 76
Bear Song	p. 77
Outside Pagosa Springs	p. 78
Ursa Minor	p. 81
Self-Portrait	p. 82
Was a Bear	p. 83
White on White	p. 84
Furry Bear	p. 85
The Day Our Teddy Bears Get Washed	p. 86
I know nothing about bears	p. 87
Objet D'Art	p. 88
Bear	p. 89
Bears	p. 90
The Black Bear on My Neighbors' Lawn in New Jersey	p. 91
Not Just Wood	p. 92
The Red and Black	p. 93
A drum beat, a heart beat: Dena'ina myth
Shield of the Bear-West	p. 97
The Bear's Gift	p. 98
Black Bear Dances	p. 99
Two Bears	p. 100
The Bear That's West in Us	p. 101
The Bear	p. 102
Bear Mother I	p. 105
The Bear Sacrifice Ceremony	p. 107
In the Sky are Two Bears	p. 110
The Burning Bear	p. 111
Playing the Bear	p. 112
Family Tree	p. 113
Grandmother (wakes)	p. 115
Toward Morning the Inuit Grandmother Talks to Herself	p. 116
Relic	p. 117
[a drum beat, a heart beat]	p. 118
Going Back	p. 120
Black Mink Loses His Balance, Part V	p. 122
Apple Tree	p. 122
The Mountain That Holds Bears: October	p. 122
Song of the Black Bear	p. 123
Hazards of Photography	p. 124
Under the Skin	p. 125
Premonition	p. 127
Totem	p. 128
To the Bear	p. 129
To Kill The Distance Between: Tanacross myth
Flames	p. 133
Worker for Hire	p. 134
Feeding the Bears	p. 134
Bear	p. 134
The Bear	p. 135
The Ring	p. 136
The Bear	p. 138
The Bears of Paris	p. 140
Thinking Too Much: The Dancing Bear	p. 141
Red velvet swing	p. 142
On the Day of the Fair	p. 143
July's Arctic Bear	p. 144
Bear Day	p. 145
The Day Weeders	p. 146
The Window at the Polar Bear Exhibit	p. 147
Waiting For The Bear: Cheyenne and Crow myth
You Are in Bear Country	p. 151
Waiting for the Bear	p. 153
My Father's Heart, the Doctor Says, No Longer Beats, But Quivers	p. 155
Night Visitor	p. 156
Co-Existing	p. 158
Cataracts	p. 159
The Fitchburg Bear	p. 161
Folsom Street Rain	p. 163
Bears of Cheyenne Canyon	p. 164
Out Picking Berries	p. 165
The Bear on the New Red Road	p. 167
Apples and Bears	p. 169
Autumn, Bears and Apple Trees	p. 170
Bush League	p. 171
Spared	p. 172
On a Night Without Moon	p. 174
Bear in Taos Cycle	p. 175
The Year the Bears Invaded Duluth	p. 177
from Merging Traffic	p. 179
Primer for Bear	p. 179
Grizzly	p. 179
Bear Poison	p. 180
When Spring Came and the Blue Bear Came to Town	p. 182
Fellow Travelers	p. 183
Walking the Geography of Other Nations	p. 185
The 59th Bear	p. 186
Bob and the Bear	p. 191
Mythos	p. 192
Grizzly	p. 194
Treat Each Bear As The Last Bear: Inupiaq myth
The Bear on Main Street	p. 197
No Bear But One	p. 198
The Pledge of the California Bear	p. 199
Margaret's Trophy	p. 200
The Bear	p. 201
Down Home Cooking	p. 202
Seeing the Bear Cross the Highway Along Roosevelt Lake	p. 204
A Black Bear	p. 205
Bear News	p. 206
I shot that bear and left it	p. 207
Bear Bait	p. 208
The Man	p. 210
Well	p. 212
Last black bear of the upper peninsula speaks	p. 213
Treat each bear as the last bear	p. 215
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