The Blue Field

by Klar, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9781550501483
• ISBN10: 1550501488
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Coteau Books

Summary

Barbara Klar has made her life on the land, aware of its beauty and power and vulnerable to its forces and whims. The Blue Field revels in this life.

Author Biography

Barbara Klar's The Night You Called Me A Shadow won the Gerald Lampert Award for the best first book of poetry.

Table of Contents

The Blue Field	p. 3
One Ton	p. 5
Deer Mouse	p. 6
The Classification Of Snow	p. 9
The Woodcutter	p. 10
Liberty Fire Extinguisher	p. 14
Maytag Gyrator II, Patented 1952	p. 15
Thaw	p. 17
April Sixteenth	p. 19
Thaw	p. 20
Nine Reasons	p. 21
Decreation Story	p. 22
The Blue Field	p. 23
Body Of Many Blue Wings	p. 25
Raspberries	p. 26
The Bird	p. 27
Birthday Bear	p. 28
Flying	p. 30
August Thirty-first	p. 35
The Potato With Two Heads	p. 36
Yellow On Blue	p. 37
Three Weeks	p. 38
Gift Days	p. 39
November First	p. 40
December Twenty-first	p. 41
Fielding	p. 42
Returning	p. 45
The Cloak	p. 46
The Bent Woman	p. 47
Four Words For My Body	p. 49
Candidiasis	p. 51
Why I Hate Children	p. 52
The Cliff	p. 53
The Pact	p. 54
The Night Of Told Secrets	p. 55
Watching You Cry	p. 56
October Seventh	p. 57
The Dress	p. 58
Oestrus	p. 59
Two Ways	p. 60
Seven Storms	p. 61
After Planting	p. 64
The Cutting	p. 65
Your Mothers Wish You Well On Earth	p. 69
Bed Song	p. 70
The Sleeping Dog	p. 71
Love Poem And Train	p. 73
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