33 Minnesota Poets

by Degrazia, Monica; Degrazia, Emilio

• ISBN13: 9780931714887
• ISBN10: 0931714885
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Adventure Pubns

Table of Contents

Melanie Richards
When the Angels Discovered Grieving	15	(2)
Maps of the Lost Kingdom	17	(1)
Solace of an Evening Lit by Streetlights	18	(1)
Dream of the Salamander	19	(1)
White Tigers	20	(1)
Nerval's Raven	21	(1)
Dialectic of the Divided Self	22	(3)
Rob Hardy
Girl's Night Out	25	(1)
River Bend	26	(1)
The Sacred Oaks	27	(1)
Entomology (Will's Poem)	28	(1)
You Were Never in the Army	29	(1)
Morning	30	(1)
Marjorie Rice	31	(1)
Instructions for Silent Prayer	32	(3)
Peter Denzer
I Live in a Crack in the Wall	35	(1)
Tongues	36	(1)
The Measure of My Life	37	(1)
Coming Back from Le Havre--Spring, 1946	38	(1)
No Metaphors	39	(1)
A Light in the Night	40	(3)
Francine Sterle
Still Life	43	(3)
Second Sight	46	(3)
Entering the Landscape	49	(1)
Prayer	50	(3)
Eugene McCarthy
The Public Man	53	(1)
Three Bad Signs	54	(2)
Grant Park, Chicago	56	(1)
Place of Promise	57	(1)
Kilroy	58	(1)
Quiet Waters	58	(3)
Joan Wolf Prefontaine
Earth Tones	61	(1)
Raspberries	62	(1)
Choreography	63	(1)
Early Planting	64	(1)
Tornado Salad	65	(1)
Why I Pity the Woman Who Never Spills	66	(3)
James Togeas
Austerity	69	(1)
Scripts	69	(1)
September Fog	70	(1)
Angel of Belief	71	(1)
Comet	71	(1)
Empedocles	72	(3)
Linda Back McKay
Ritual Branch	75	(1)
Night Measures	76	(1)
Indian Cemetery	77	(1)
Dislocated Worker Project, Fairmont, Minnesota	78	(1)
Responsibility	79	(1)
The Barn Poem on Highway 19	80	(3)
Richard Broderick
Equinox	83	(1)
The Mountains of Florida	84	(1)
Moonrise over Lake Michigan	85	(1)
After Reading the Unabomber Manifesto	86	(1)
On Moss	87	(1)
Sundays Spent Working at Home	87	(1)
Swimming Laps	88	(3)
Debra Barnes
There's Talk	91	(1)
The World Has Turned	91	(1)
Out of Time	92	(1)
Sonnet to Ravenna	93	(1)
Marriage at 42 Below	94	(1)
The Transcendence of Poetry	94	(3)
Michael Kincaid
Northern Solstice	97	(1)
Hymn to Otherness	97	(1)
Lunar Function	98	(1)
Orion's Promise	99	(1)
Aeolian Oak	99	(1)
Good Manners	100	(3)
Norita Dittberner-Jax
Sauerkraut Supper	103	(1)
Levitating toward Duluth	104	(1)
Love Letters	105	(1)
Classroom	106	(1)
Senior English	107	(1)
West Seventh Street	108	(3)
Jane Whitledge
The Doll's Head	111	(1)
Poet's Beginning	112	(1)
Because My Father Worked Two Jobs	113	(1)
Morel Mushrooms	114	(1)
Summer of Flowers	115	(1)
At the Wolf Kill	116	(3)
Steven Schild
Beatitude: Cycle of Water	119	(1)
Sandwiches after the Service	120	(1)
Something for a Son	121	(1)
The Bride	122	(1)
Heirlooms	123	(1)
At the Kitchen Table on the Anniversary of a Death	124	(3)
Kathleen Heideman
A Field of Mudswallows	127	(1)
Lost Gospel of Infancy	128	(1)
Villanelle for a Negaunee Oracle	129	(1)
How the Abandoned Lands Speak	130	(1)
Come Sunday	131	(1)
Signs and Signifiers	132	(3)
Michael Dennis Browne
Hide and Go Seek	135	(2)
Tree Care	137	(1)
Evensong	138	(1)
The Now, the Long Ago	139	(1)
Mengele	140	(3)
Orval Lund
Plowing	143	(1)
For John, Who Did Not Choose Baseball	144	(1)
Take Paradise	145	(1)
Swede Decides to Quit Hunting	146	(1)
Men in Winter	147	(4)
Bill Meissner
First Ties: The Father in the Mirror	151	(1)
The Father, Who Could Not Swim	152	(1)
The Contortionist	153	(1)
The Contorionist's Wife	154	(1)
The Education of Martin Halsted	155	(1)
The Secrets of America	156	(3)
Ethna McKiernan
Homage to the Common	159	(1)
The Other Woman	160	(1)
Those We Carry with Us	161	(1)
The Architecture of Flowers	162	(1)
At This Moment	163	(1)
In My Father's Voice	164	(3)
Robert Hedin
Turning Fifty	167	(1)
The Snow Country	167	(1)
Waiting for Trains at Col d'Aubisque	168	(1)
Bells	169	(1)
Goddard Hot Springs	169	(1)
The Old Liberators	170	(3)
Lucille Broderson
White Milk at Daybreak	173	(1)
Letter Never Sent	174	(1)
Harvested Field	175	(1)
This Is Your Old Age, Lucy	176	(2)
At Seventy-Eight	178	(3)
Tracy Youngblom
Release	181	(1)
Sordid	182	(1)
Joseph	183	(1)
On Sunday Morning the All-Men Worship Team Takes the Stage	184	(1)
O Earthly Zion	185	(1)
Child's Drawing	186	(3)
Ken McCullough
Instructions (for Shivani Arjuna)	189	(1)
Visitation	190	(1)
Finishing Merrill Gilfillan's Chokecherry Places at the Cambodian Buddhist Temple, North Bronx	191	(1)
The Red and Black	192	(1)
Instructions (for Galway McCullough)	193	(1)
Run, Late November	194	(3)
Joyce Sutphen
Crossroads	197	(1)
From out the Cave	198	(1)
Launching into Space	199	(1)
Comforts of the Sun	200	(1)
My Father Comes to the City	201	(1)
Casino	202	(3)
Philip Dacey
She Writes Offering to Buy for Her Son, in Minnesota, an Electric Blanket	205	(1)
Badlands Love	205	(1)
Nomen, Numen	206	(2)
Counsel to the President	208	(1)
Walt Whitman's Answering Service	209	(4)
Mary Kay Rummel
Reading	213	(1)
Sonata	214	(1)
In the Night Kitchen	215	(1)
Burgundy Trillium	216	(2)
Medieval Herbal	218	(3)
Greg Hewett
Memorial Fountain	221	(1)
Turtle Music	222	(1)
The Distance to Birth	223	(1)
Hymn of 1978, the Last Word	224	(2)
Two Sons of the King of Delhi Hanged, 1857	226	(3)
Claire van Breemen Downes
Mulberry Creek	229	(1)
Love Song at Evening	230	(1)
Postscipt to an Old Myth	230	(1)
Golden Time	231	(1)
A Double Sonnet in Honor of My Hundred-and-Twentieth Birthday	232	(3)
Margaret Hasse
Grave	235	(1)
Bean Fields	236	(1)
A Favorite Dessert, Lips	237	(1)
Lilacs in the Ditch	238	(2)
Marking Him	240	(3)
Anthony Swann
These Are My People	243	(1)
The Outpost	244	(1)
Beethoven Mad in the Streets	245	(1)
Wild Rice, Wild Roses	246	(2)
A Homeless Person Arranges His Belongings	248	(3)
Gary Holthaus
Brother	251	(2)
Blouse	253	(1)
What It Comes Down To	254	(1)
An Archeology of History	255	(1)
The Barn	256	(4)
CarolAnn Russell
Poets of the Cimitero Acattolicco	260	(1)
Hotel Excelsior	261	(1)
Last Judgment at Orvieto	262	(1)
Scala Del Bovolo	263	(1)
Incarnation	264	(3)
Scott King
At the Shore of Snowbank Lake	267	(1)
What It's Like	268	(1)
The Hill	268	(1)
Todos Santos	269	(1)
The Dark after Autumn	270	(1)
An Old Language	270