Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods : Poems

by Bohince, Paula

• ISBN13: 9781932511628
• ISBN10: 1932511628
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-30
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

"[Paula] Bohince is more naturalist than romantic, meaning that her poems above all honor their dark side, their realism, their edge."-Stanley PlumlySpanning decades and set on a decrepit farm, Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods begins with a speaker invoking her dead father. As details are gradually uncovered, we learn the father was murdered by a trusted laborer.Paula Bohince has received a "Discovery"/The Nation Award in 2007, the Grolier Poetry Prize, and grants from the Puffin and the Ludwig Vogelstein foundations. In 2008, Bohince will be the Amy Clampitt Resident Fellow in Massachusetts. She lives in Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Prayer	p. 3
Landscape with Sheep and Deer	p. 4
Where Radio Fails	p. 6
Trespass	p. 7
Black Lamb	p. 8
Hide Out	p. 10
Acrostic: Mementos	p. 12
Longlegs	p. 13
Silhouette	p. 14
Acrostic: Outhouse	p. 16
Spirits at the Edge of Bayonet Woods	p. 17
Johnstown	p. 19
Quarry	p. 20
Oriole	p. 21
Brutally, the Robin	p. 23
The Apostles	p. 27
The Gospel According to Lucas	p. 29
The Fish of Galilee	p. 31
Eating Fish in Pittsburgh	p. 32
The Fatherless Room	p. 34
Cleaning My Father's House	p. 35
Acrostic: Geese in Snow	p. 36
First Day of the Hunt	p. 37
The Gospel According to Paul	p. 39
Acrostic for My Father	p. 40
Photographing the Moths	p. 41
When I Think of Love	p. 42
The Gospel According to John	p. 43
Clinging	p. 44
Still Life with Needle	p. 47
Toward Happiness	p. 49
Idle Hours	p. 51
Farm Triptych	p. 52
Pond	p. 54
White Trumpets	p. 57
Drive-In: The Wizard of Oz	p. 58
Watching Lightning Strike the Walnut	p. 60
Adoration of the Easter Lamb	p. 61
Resurrection	p. 62
The Fly	p. 63
Heaven	p. 64
Charity	p. 65
Acknowledgments	p. 69
The Author	p. 71
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