Sustenance: New and Selected Poems

by Bender, Sheila

• ISBN13: 9781564743008
• ISBN10: 1564743004
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Scb Distributors

Author Biography

Sheila Bender teaches continuing education writing courses for the University of Arizona and for various arts groups in the Northwest. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

Table of Contents

Sustenance, Poems 1991-1998
Watching My Husband Meet His Birth Mother	13	(1)
Preparing to Teach the Poetry Writing Workshop	14	(1)
For My Daughter Who Has Gone to Study in Japan	15	(1)
Playing Violin in Seventh Grade	16	(1)
Yartzeit	17	(3)
Today Kuwano-san Is Called Kuwano-sensei, Teacher	20	(1)
In Birmingham, Michigan, While My Husband Consults	21	(1)
While Buying a Birthday Card for My Son Who's Just Gone to College	22	(1)
Foggy Afternoon in Cambridge	23	(1)
Thanksgiving, 1994	24	(1)
After Learning You've Moved to My City	25	(1)
Memory of Skating in Winter	26	(1)
I Brought My Tears to the Sea	27	(1)
At the Ryokan in Shizuoka During Shinto Doll Festival Time Honoring Daughters in the Hopes They Will Marry	28	(1)
Lakewood, NJ, 1953	29	(1)
To My First Love, Jacques	30	(1)
Yartzeit II	31	(1)
On the Garden State Parkway	32	(1)
When My Husband, Away on a Trip, Spoke Each Night for a Week About a Friend's Divorce	33	(1)
In Hiroshima	34	(5)
Love from the Coastal Route, Selected Poems 1978-1991
The Coastal Route After Arguing	39	(1)
Reading Haas During a Coastal Storm, Mid-November	40	(1)
Walking to School	41	(1)
Night Passage for My Daughter	42	(1)
Burying the Dead Fish	43	(1)
After We Collected Treasures from the Beach and Forests	44	(1)
February Morning	45	(1)
After Love	46	(1)
Yussel is Dead	47	(1)
After Crossing the Desert	48	(1)
My Lover Returns Saying He Has Found a Wife	49	(1)
Meeting My Pen Pal of Nine Years	50	(1)
Folding	51	(2)
With Martha at Gig Harbor	53	(1)
Meeting You at La Grand' Place	54	(1)
At the Ethnic Cemeteries, Roslyn, Washington, After a Day as Poet-in-Residence	55	(1)
Cardhouses	56	(1)
The Day That I Give In	57	(2)
Rowing on Lake Union, Spring 1978	59	(2)
About the Author	61