How to: Poems

by Reichard, William

• ISBN13: 9780922811595
• ISBN10: 0922811598
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Mid List Pr

Summary

How To was a finalist for the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award. In this distinguished collection of poems, William Reichard graciously inspires his readers to celebrate as well as mourn all things transformed by choice or circumstance. "Strong meditations on the hopefulness and hopelessness that attend our attempts to connect with each other." -- Lambda Book Report

Author Biography

William Reichard is a writer and editor

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
One
Babel	3	(1)
Hypothesis: Faith	4	(1)
Beckon, Answer	5	(1)
On a Scene from Kabuki	6	(1)
Hypothesis: Love	7	(2)
The Tourist's Tale	9	(1)
Hypothesis: Structure	10	(2)
Birthday Card	12	(1)
Minneapolis Suite	13	(6)
Ten Yellow Tulips, with a Portrait of Ev	19	(4)
Two
Under	23	(1)
Black Mountain, Ten Perspectives	24	(3)
Letter to a Friend in San Francisco	27	(2)
Big Brown Buick Love Song	29	(2)
Long Winter Letter	31	(2)
Illuminations	33	(1)
Open in Case of Emergency	34	(1)
Sunday Afternoon, Instead	35	(2)
Thunder	37	(1)
Leaving Water Running	38	(1)
MS. Found in a Bottle	39	(1)
Three Stories	40	(3)
The Unexpected Universe	43	(1)
How To	44	(2)
Postcards from California	46	(5)
Three
On the Prairie, with My Father	51	(2)
Eden Trio	53	(2)
Hare S	S4
For N.S.R.	55	(1)
Letters from Home	56	(2)
Old Man Root	58	(1)
Billy Burns	59	(1)
The Raspberry Wars	60	(1)
Archives	61	(1)
Three Songs for My Brother	62	(3)
On the Pontoon	65	(1)
For Liz in Summer	66	(1)
A Short History of Flight	67	(1)
Before Winter	68	(1)
To Be Quietly Spoken	69	(1)
Milarepa	70