A Slender Grace

by Jellema, Rod

• ISBN13: 9780802827821
• ISBN10: 0802827829
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-15
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Author Biography

Rod Jellema is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland.

Table of Contents

On Double Vision: A Prefatory Note	ix
Incarnality	1	(30)
Words Take Water's Way	3	(2)
The Housekite	5	(1)
Think Narrow	6	(1)
Ice Age	7	(2)
Bicycle Parts	9	(4)
The Frame	9	(1)
Spokes	9	(1)
The Sprocket	10	(1)
Fenders	11	(1)
The Front Tire	11	(1)
Bicycle Seats	12	(1)
Letter to Lewis Smedes about God's Presence	13	(1)
The Pineapple Poem	14	(2)
Incarnal Rhythm: A Kind of Counterpoint	16	(1)
Come Winter	17	(3)
Beneath the Signals of the Car Pool Radio, 1999	20	(3)
A Wedding Toast	23	(1)
Reach	24	(1)
The Replay	25	(2)
Pre-school Learning: Suzie at Three	27	(1)
Secondary Ed.	28	(1)
Descending Mount Palomar in a Rainstorm, Two Travelers Rediscover Impressionist Painting	29	(2)
Bifocal	31	(34)
We Used to Grade God's Sunsets from the Lost Valley Beach	33	(1)
Green Beans	34	(2)
New Era, Michigan	36	(1)
Snow Emergency Route	37	(1)
Getting the Picture	38	(2)
Young Man at the Laundromat Watching the Spinning Dryers	40	(1)
Singing in the Shower	41	(1)
Little Rock Barbeque	42	(1)
The Color of His Hunger	43	(1)
Some of the ``Whats'' That Are in a Name	44	(1)
Aphrodite at Paphos, 1994	45	(1)
A Word in the Glare	46	(1)
Take a Chance	47	(1)
Still Life Waiting for Something to Start Again	48	(1)
Cricket Blues	49	(1)
Bix Beiderbecke Composing Light, 1927-1931	50	(2)
In the Dark	52	(1)
Blind Willie Johnson (From Suzanne des Cendres)	53	(1)
Up from the Borinage: Three for Vincent Van Gogh	54	(7)
In North Brabant, 1927, a Citizen Remembers Vincent Van Gogh	54	(3)
The Potato Eaters	57	(2)
Van Gogh, Talking to Himself, Echoes His Letters while Surveying His Latest Works	59	(2)
Nightrise from the Observation Deck of the World Trade Center	61	(1)
The Car in the Snow	62	(3)
Assignment Nicaragua, 1985	65	(12)
Easing Down toward Nicaragua	67	(2)
Assignment Nicaragua	69	(2)
Managua in the Thirteenth Year after the Earthquake	71	(1)
``San Carlos Potable Water''	72	(2)
Too Quickly	74	(1)
Hearing the Nighttime Crowing of Cocks	75	(2)
``Some Lost Place Called Home''	77	(33)
Travel Advisory	79	(1)
Caribbean Cruise: A Letter	80	(2)
Why I Never Take off My Watch at Night	82	(2)
In the Red Sea: Snorkeling off Basata	84	(3)
Report from Near the End of Time and Matter	87	(1)
A Prayer for Darkness in an Age of Glare	88	(2)
A Sighting	90	(1)
Contact	91	(1)
Ending the Nationwide Poets' Strike	92	(1)
Proposing the Text for a United States National War Memorial	93	(1)
Leash Laws in Effect	94	(1)
About the Summer House	95	(3)
A Disquisition upon Whistling	98	(2)
Hats and Awnings	100	(1)
Truant Dancer	101	(1)
Herm Klaasen to Himself	102	(1)
Some Things Are Easier to Say in the Ancient Tongue of Clodskyvish	103	(2)
Lullaby at Lake Michigan	105	(1)
This Way Out	106	(1)
Meditation on Coming Out of a Matinee	107	(1)
Cafe Lejano	108	(1)
Frisian Psalms, 1930s	109	(1)
Notes to Some of the Poems	110	(4)
Acknowledgments	114