Labor Songs

by Raptosh, Diane

• ISBN13: 9781550710595
• ISBN10: 1550710591
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-30
• Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc

Summary

Diane Raptosh's ambitious and accomplished Labor Songs is a collection rich in astutely worded details of place and personality. Speaking in many voices, scrutinising the world from multiple perspectives, Raptosh charts a complex geography centred in Idaho but reaching out towards Michigan, Florida, Alaska, and beyond. Her poetic labours are rewarded by songs that lift off with what she herself calls unison wingbeats.

Author Biography

Diane Raptosh teaches in the English Department at the College of Idaho.

Table of Contents

Luthier	p. 7
The Wheelbarrow Woman	p. 9
On Living Here: A Heart Murmur	p. 12
Western Idaho Fair	p. 14
Giuseppina's Petition	p. 16
Concetta's Letter From Motors Holding	p. 19
The Book Thief's Recitative	p. 21
The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses	p. 23
Sand Key	p. 29
The Idea of North	p. 31
The Iceman's Oracle	p. 34
Alaska	p. 37
For a Tracker	p. 40
White Pelican	p. 41
California Quail	p. 43
Pigeons	p. 46
Guinea Hen	p. 48
The Quickening	p. 50
Lullaby for the Unborn	p. 52
Labor Song	p. 54
Milkweed	p. 55
Drinking Song	p. 56
Late Autumn Nocturne	p. 58
Second Blood	p. 60
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