Maine Speaks : An Anthology of Maine Literature

by Fischer, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9780961859220
• ISBN10: 0961859229
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-05-01
• Publisher: Maine Writers & Pubs Alliance

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Jeff Fischer
Introduction	xi
Eileen Landay
Identity
Whale!	3	(6)
Eleanor Sterling
Blueberry Boy	9	(1)
Leo Connellan
A White Heron	10	(9)
Sarah Orne Jewett
from Octavia's Hill	19	(10)
Margaret Dickson
John and Emma Carpenter	29	(2)
Glenna Johnson Smith
Scobie	31	(10)
Elisabeth Ogilvie
My Lost Youth	41	(3)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The State Meet	44	(11)
Fred Bonnie
The Bad One	55	(23)
Gerard Robichaud
Renascence	78	(6)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Past the Shallows	84	(11)
Betsy Graves
Silhouette	95	(1)
Abbie Huston Evans
The Ledge	96	(14)
Lawrence Sargent Hall
exercise	110	(5)
Lee Sharkey
Origins
A Poem About the Red Paint People	115	(2)
Samuel French Morse
Champlain Navigates the Penobscot	117	(2)
Samuel De Champlain
from An Account of Two Voyages to New England	119	(4)
John Josselyn
English and Indians Have It Out at Pemaquid	123	(4)
John Gyles
We are the Stars Which Sing	127	(1)
Passamaquoddy Legend
The Stars	128	(1)
Passamaquoddy Legend
January, 1724	129	(1)
Robert Chute
La Derniere Lune	130	(1)
Robert Chute
The Last Moon	131	(1)
Robert Chute
The Coming of Glooskap	132	(3)
Wabanaki Legend
Gluskap Fashions the Animals	135	(2)
Wabanaki Legend
Koluskap and Wind	137	(1)
Passamaquoddy Legend
Gluskap Goes to France	138	(2)
Wabanaki Legend
When Koluskap Left the Earth	140	(3)
Passamaquoddy Legend
The Witch of Harpswell	143	(9)
Anonymous
Jack Downing's Visit to Portland	152	(3)
Seba Smith
Turnip Pie	155	(6)
Rebecca Cummings
from The Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country	161	(1)
Leo Connellan
Germaine	162	(4)
Denis Ledoux
History	166	(2)
Roberta Chester
Succoth	168	(2)
Roberta Chester
Remembering the First Newcomers	170	(2)
Margery Wilson
Micmac	172	(1)
Samuel French Morse
Lost Graveyards	173	(1)
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Aye! No Monuments	174	(5)
Rita Joe
Work
The Logger's Boast	179	(2)
Traditional Song
from Nine Mile Bridge	181	(6)
Helen Hamlin
At the Grave of the Unknown River Driver	187	(1)
Paul Corrigan
from Sign of the Beaver	188	(6)
Elizabeth Speare
Uncle George's Axe	194	(1)
Robert Chute
Work	195	(9)
Lura Beam
Kennebec Crystals	204	(7)
Robert P. T. Coffin
from North of the C.P. Line	211	(5)
John Mcphee
Work Piece	216	(2)
Tom Fallon
from Picking Up	218	(7)
Lucy Honig
Grandfather	225	(1)
Gary Lawless
A Mess of Clams	226	(1)
Robert P.T. Coffin
Linn Goes Torching	227	(7)
Dorothy Simpson
The Night Charlie Tended Weir	234	(5)
Ruth Moore
Factory Days	239	(3)
Susan Hand Shetterly
In the Sardine Factory	242	(1)
Kathleen Lignell
Maine	243	(4)
Philip Booth
Nature
The Wreck of the Hesperus	247	(3)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Stay at the Ocean	250	(12)
Robley Wilson, Jr.
The Day the Tide	262	(2)
Philip Booth
Lakes & Ponds: Some Blue Spots on the Maine Highway Map	264	(1)
Kate Barnes
The Passing of the Hay Barn	265	(2)
Abbie Huston Evans
Fire	267	(2)
William Carpenter
New England	269	(1)
Constance Hunting
Dry Summer	270	(2)
May Sarton
Weather Prophet	272	(9)
Edmund Ware Smith
This is a Night	281	(1)
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Winter Splendor	282	(1)
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Poem for St. Francis	283	(1)
Sylvester Pollet
Great Horned Owl	284	(5)
Susan Hand Shetterly
An Unseen Deer	289	(1)
John Tagliabue
How to See Deer	290	(2)
Philip Booth
from The Year of the Big Cat	292	(4)
Lew Dietz
First Deer	296	(2)
Paul Corrigan
As the Buck Lay Dead	298	(1)
Marsden Hartley
The Buck in the Snow	299	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Day of the Hunter	300	(2)
Edward Holmes
Open Secrets of Bowdoinham	302	(2)
Stephen Petroff
Death of a Pig	304	(8)
E.B. White
The Passing of Mrs. Wiggs	312	(1)
Robert Chute
Talking to the Dog	313	(1)
Kate Barnes
from Letourneau's Used Auto Parts	314	(1)
Carolyn Chute
Dog	315	(2)
Mitchell Goodman
from The Outlaw Dogs	317	(7)
C. A. Stephens
Ox	324	(1)
Henry Braun
In the Pasture	325	(1)
Kate Barnes
from The Maine Woods	326	(7)
Henry David Thoreau
Climbing Katahdin	333	(6)
Daniel Hoffman
Communities
Maine Speech	339	(3)
E. B. White
The Black Fly Festival	342	(2)
Tim Sample
Three and One, Arrowmoosic	344	(2)
Constance Hunting
Black Sunday	346	(4)
Virginia Chase
The Rumor	350	(6)
Erskine Caldwell
from Sing Peace to Cedar River	356	(3)
William Clark
Cap't Bunker's Boy	359	(1)
Sturgis Haskins
Step-Over Toe-Hold	360	(7)
Sanford Phippen
Of Small Towns	367	(2)
Baron Wormser
from The Weir	369	(11)
Ruth Moore
The Reach	380	(17)
Stephen King
from The Walk Down Main Street	397	(10)
Ruth Moore
Mr. Flood's Party	407	(2)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Not For Hire	409	(5)
Edward Holmes
Richard Cory	414	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Summer Person	415	(2)
Glenna Johnson Smith
Island Girl	417	(4)
Catharine Baker
The Glow of Copper	421	(10)
Christopher Fahy
Letter from Maine	431	(5)
Jack Aley
A Sharing of Silences	436	(3)
Richard Aldridge
Author Biographies	439	(23)
Acknowledgements	462	(3)
Index	465