The Eighth Continent

by Boes, Don; Ammons, A. R.

• ISBN13: 9781555531782
• ISBN10: 1555531784
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-10-26
• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr

Summary

Winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize

Table of Contents

Bats	p. 3
The Subject Is the Future	p. 4
Life on the Beach	p. 5
In the Beginning	p. 8
Landlocked	p. 10
Nauset Light Beach Cape Cod	p. 11
Whalewatch at Stellwagen Bank	p. 12
Seven Yellow Blankets	p. 13
Hummingbird	p. 14
Slide	p. 15
The Scene of the Crime	p. 17
Accidents Will Happen	p. 18
The Room We Sit In	p. 19
Lines for Your Absence	p. 20
Earthbound	p. 21
Spring Cleaning	p. 22
On Her Way	p. 23
Damage	p. 27
Ohio River Anatomy Lesson	p. 28
The Eighth Continent	p. 29
Escape from Canada	p. 30
Sunday	p. 31
Bike Thief	p. 33
Spark	p. 34
Three Fish Stories	p. 35
July Funeral	p. 38
Patience	p. 39
Supper's Over	p. 40
Heaven and Earth	p. 41
The World Since Yesterday	p. 42
A Greenhouse in March	p. 43
Ceremony for St. Patrick's Day	p. 44
State Fair Queen	p. 46
Landscape with Dinner	p. 47
Motivational Tape Pantoum	p. 48
Feature Race	p. 49
Introduction to Bioacoustics	p. 50
Reunion	p. 51
January	p. 53
Claustrophobia	p. 54
Tomato	p. 57
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