Story Hunger

by Chadwick, Jerah

• ISBN13: 9781897648568
• ISBN10: 1897648561
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry

Summary

Here are poems crossing seascapes and land, about the wild absences of the Aleutian landscape, the deep absences of those who have vanished, and our own groping efforts to understand ourselves, our place, and our history.

Table of Contents

After the Aleut	p. 3
From the Museum	p. 4
Attu, 1943: From the Diary of Dr. Nebu Tatsuguchi	p. 5
The Madwoman of Amlia	p. 9
Legacy	p. 11
Storm Watch	p. 12
From the Cradle of Storms	p. 14
Absence Wild	p. 15
Eagle Country	p. 19
Cold Comforts	p. 20
Not Singing	p. 21
Lesson of Bread	p. 22
Groundlight	p. 23
Winter Country	p. 24
Stove	p. 25
A Sense of Direction	p. 26
The Life to Come	p. 27
Letter	p. 28
Surfacing	p. 29
Returnings	p. 30
Story Hunger	p. 35
At Newgrange	p. 36
Selchie	p. 37
Sheela Na Gig	p. 38
Bog Lilies	p. 39
Eight-Legged Colt, Chernobyl	p. 40
Returned Empties	p. 41
The Bog People	p. 43
Sudden Landscapes	p. 44
Morels	p. 46
At the Clearing's Edge	p. 47
The Hardness Scale	p. 48
Elegy	p. 49
Names Project	p. 50
The Okvik Madonna	p. 51
Drifters	p. 52
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