The Rain at Midnight

by Hutchison, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9781890932121
• ISBN10: 1890932124
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Sherman Asher Pub

Summary

Poems that embody a sense of risk and a physical longing to connect to the world where the body lives. Critics praise the intimate moments of family life that recall William Carlos Williams and the unbridled sensuality of D.H. Lawrence.

Table of Contents

St. Failure's Hospital
The Shower	11	(1)
The Tremor	12	(2)
Family Planning	14	(1)
Harbinger	15	(1)
Sundown	16	(1)
Punishment	17	(1)
Another Middle-Aged Deity	18	(1)
Daffodils	19	(1)
The Dreamers	20	(1)
Forgone Conclusions	21	(1)
An Amusing Anecdote	22	(1)
Good	23	(1)
Three Male Voices	24	(2)
One Way Fare	26	(3)
The Oldest Fear
Masks	29	(1)
Radiance	30	(1)
The One-Armed Boy	31	(1)
Strange But True	32	(2)
Something More	34	(2)
Vita	36	(1)
White Owl	37	(1)
Sandman	38	(1)
Evening on Loveland Pass	39	(1)
Palimpsest	40	(1)
Apartment House Midnight	41	(1)
Bare Maple	42	(1)
Dusk	43	(1)
Christmas Parade	44	(3)
Net of Flaws
The Net	47	(1)
A Natural History	48	(1)
A Beach North of Depoe Bay	49	(1)
Bending Over My Reflection	50	(1)
Blossoms	51	(1)
Scene from a TV News Special Report on the P.L.O.	52	(1)
Night Storm	53	(1)
Remedies	54	(1)
Walking Off a Night of Drinking in Early Spring	55	(1)
One Wave	56	(1)
What Keeps Me Here	57	(1)
Internal Combustion	58	(1)
What I Know	59	(1)
After All These Years	60	(1)
Instructions Received in a Dream	61	(1)
Black River	62	(3)
The Eye's Reach
The Cloud and the Kingdom	65	(2)
Self-Assessment	67	(1)
The Whisper	68	(1)
Forced to Wonder	69	(1)
Bronze Bud Vase in the Shape of an Iris Bulb with Swordlike Leaves	70	(1)
The Ghost	71	(1)
The Dyer's Craft	72	(1)
The Moonlit Dream	73	(1)
Outing on a Grey Day	74	(4)
On a Used Copy of Witter Bynner's Translation of the Tao Teh Ching	78	(3)
Brightness and Shadow
Dawn Rain	81	(1)
Seduction	82	(1)
Standing By	83	(1)
The Blue	84	(2)
After the Service	86	(1)
Flashes	87	(1)
Starlings	88	(1)
Daybreak	89	(1)
A Midsummer Night's Tennis Match	90	(1)
Brightness and Shadow	91	(1)
Summit	92	(1)
Glassbottom Boat	93	(1)
The Rain at Midnight	94	(1)
Notes to the Poems	95
Author's Note and Acknowledgments