Winter

by Schmidt, Gary D.

• ISBN13: 9781893361928
• ISBN10: 1893361926
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Skylight Paths Pub

Summary

Includes a wide range of classic texts--from translated Sanskrit and Hebrew poems to Henry David Thoreau and Basho. Last winter's bestseller now in deluxe PB.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
PART ONE: Winter As a Time of Sorrow and Barrenness
Introduction	3	(5)
JAMAICA KINCAID
"A Fire by Ice"	8	(9)
MATSUO BASHO
"Cold night" and other haiku	17	(3)
BARRY LOPEZ
"Ice and Light"	20	(5)
KATHLEEN NORRIS
from The Cloister Walk	25	(5)
JANE KENYON
"While We Were Arguing" and "Apple Dropping into Deep Early Snow"	30	(3)
JOHN JEROME
"November: Old Guys"	33	(8)
ROBERT FINCH
"A Winter Burial"	41	(8)
PART TWO: Winter As a Time to Be Scoured, and a Time to Succor the Scoured
Introduction	49	(4)
RON HANSEN
"Wickedness"	53	(7)
WILLIAM COOPER
from Concio Hyemalis. A Winter Sermon	60	(6)
JIM DALE HUOT VICKERY
"Closing the Circle"	66	(17)
PO CHÜ-YI
"Bitter Cold, Living in the Village"	83	(2)
DONALD HALL
"Winter"	85	(20)
PART THREE: Winter As a Time of Shoring Ourselves Up Introduction	105	(44)
KATHLEEN NORRIS
"Weather Report: February 10"	109	(2)
JOHN UPDIKE
"The Cold"	111	(4)
VIDYÃKARA
from the Treasury of Well-Turned Verse	115	(2)
ANNIE DILLARD
from The Writing Life	117	(3)
PATRICIA HAMPL
from A Romantic Education	120	(6)
JANE KENYON
"Season of Change and Loss" and "Good-by and Keep Cold"	126	(6)
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
"The Pond in Winter"	132	(17)
PART FOUR: Winter As a Time of Purity and Praise
Introduction	149	(3)
from the Daily Ha/lei (Hal/el Sheb'khol yom)	152	(3)
RACHEL CARSON
"Winter Haven"	155	(13)
SULTAN BAHU
"On a dark, black night, love lights a lamp" and other Sufi poems	168	(3)
ANNIE DILLARD
"Winter"	171	(17)
WILL D. CAMPBELL
from Soul Among Lions: Musings of a Bootleg Preacher	188	(4)
WILLIAM J.VANDE KOPPLE
"Through the Ice"	192	(13)
PART FIVE: Winter As a Time of Delight and Play
Introduction	205	(3)
JAMES HOUSTON
from Songs of the Dream People	208	(2)
MARK A. NOLL
"Snow"	210	(2)
ANNIE DILLARD
from An American Childhood	212	(5)
PETE FROMM
from Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness	217	(15)
E.B. WHITE
"The Winter of the Great Snows"	232	(9)
YUN SONDO
"When the clouds have passed away" and other poems from The Fisherman's Calendar	241	(2)
JANE KENYON
"This Morning"	243	(2)
Acknowledgments	245	(6)
Notes	251	(12)
About SkyLight Paths	263