Looking For God's Country

by Krapf, Norbert

• ISBN13: 9781568091037
• ISBN10: 1568091036
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Time Being Books

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE Letter from a Star Above Southern Indiana	17	(4)
I. THE NEST
The Nest	21	(1)
Strawberry-Patch Song	22	(1)
The Gardener	23	(2)
Chicken in the Woods	25	(1)
Aunt Justine and the Cistern	26	(2)
Godfather's Fishing Knife	28	(2)
Camp Carnes Facts	30	(1)
Seining Minnows	31	(1)
Patoka River Canoe Trip	32	(1)
Patoka River Memories	33	(1)
Early-Morning Rounds	34	(1)
The Hay-Baler	35	(1)
Barnyard Hoops	36	(1)
After the Football Game	37	(1)
Urban the Caretaker	38	(2)
Plywood Summer	40	(1)
Wheel Poem	41	(1)
The Storyteller	42	(2)
The Schneebrunzer	44	(3)
II. FRANCONIAN FACES AND FIELDS
What the Map Says	47	(2)
Franconian Faces and Fields: After Andreas Riedel
1. Road	49	(1)
2. Franconian Landscape	50	(1)
3. The Ghost Road	51	(1)
4. The Curve of Farm Buildings	52	(2)
5. The Farmer and the Manure	54	(2)
6. Berta and Georg Haberkamm	56	(1)
7. Hans and Marie	57	(1)
8. Suspenders	58	(1)
9. Julius at the Door	59	(1)
10. Behind Farm Buildings	60	(1)
11. Shorn Sheep	61	(1)
12. Anna's Oven	62	(1)
13. The Man with the Bread	63	(2)
14. The Woman in the Barley	65	(1)
15. Zwetschgenkuchen/Plum Pastry	66	(1)
16. Eva's Knife	67	(1)
17. Women Gathering Apples	68	(1)
18. Apples in Rainwater	69	(1)
19. Three Saturday Sweepers	70	(2)
20. Woman with a Rake	72	(1)
21. Women in Potato Field	73	(1)
22. The Potato Cart	74	(2)
23. The Village Guards	76	(1)
24. Black-Cat Blues	77	(1)
25. Going to Church	78	(1)
26. Shoes Under the Bed	79	(4)
III. THE BRANDENBURG GATE
The Brandenburg Gate: Berlin, 2000	83	(1)
Empty Underground Shelves	84	(1)
Würzburg Sequence: After Gunter Ullrich
1. Riders over Würzburg	85	(1)
2. Black Sun, 1945	86	(2)
3. Destroyed Facade	88	(1)
4. A Fruit Tree After the War	89	(2)
5. What Survives	91	(2)
A Quiet Corner in Thuringia	93	(2)
The Woman in the Wine Shop	95	(2)
Petra in Her Garden	97	(2)
Schroeder the Franconian Cat	99	(1)
The Girl in the Garden	100	(1)
Spark and Flame	101	(1)
The Blacksmith's Daughter	102	(1)
Cuxland, the Coast	103	(1)
The Lost Picture	104	(3)
IV. GOD'S COUNTRY
God's Country	107	(2)
Polished Shoes	109	(1)
A Pretty Small Town	110	(1)
Second Sister	111	(1)
Prayers and Smoke	112	(1)
Where the Waters Grow Deep	113	(2)
Coming into Her Own	115	(1)
Aunt Verena	116	(1)
Elegy for Small-Town Heroes	117	(1)
Where Trees Are Tall	118	(1)
Squirrel Hunter's Dream	119	(1)
The Piankashaw in the Sycamore	120	(2)
Dark and Deep	122	(1)
What I Found in the Woods	123	(1)
Coming into the Valley	124	(2)
Moon Shadows	126	(1)
This Dust	127	(2)
Legacy	129	(1)
Blood Song	130	(1)
Genug um zu geniessen/Enough to Enjoy	131	(2)
The Time Has Come	133	(2)
EPILOGUE The Audience of the Dead	135