Word and Witness : One Hundred Years of North Carolina Poetry

by Buckner, Sally

• ISBN13: 9780890896877
• ISBN10: 0890896879
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xviii
Introduction: A Century of Poetry	3	(10)
Word and Witness: 1900--1916	13	(16)
On Hatteras Bar	17	(1)
Henry Jerome Stockard
The Guerdon	18	(1)
Benjamin Sledd
Twilight	18	(1)
Benjamin Sledd
By the Swannanoa	19	(1)
John Henry Boner
The Wolf	20	(1)
John Henry Boner
Life and Love	21	(1)
James McGirt
Spring	21	(1)
James McGirt
Autumn	22	(1)
John Charles McNeill
The Counselor	22	(1)
John Charles McNeill
Wishing	23	(1)
John Charles McNeill
The Cycle's Rim: XXXVI	24	(1)
Olive Tilford Dargan
Twilight	24	(1)
Olive Tilford Dargan
Birth	24	(5)
Olive Tilford Dargan
Word and Witness: 1917--1954	29	(28)
Men of America	33	(1)
Paul Green
Stopping in Albert Behind the Germans	34	(1)
Paul Green
The Bitterroots	35	(1)
Norman Macleod
The Spanish Loyalist	36	(1)
Norman Macleod
Stride on the Desert	36	(1)
Norman Macleod
In Memory: Northern Navajo	37	(1)
Norman Macleod
Fifty Acres	38	(1)
James Larkin Pearson
Homer in a Garden	39	(1)
James Larkin Pearson
God	39	(1)
James Larkin Pearson
Song for the Silent	40	(1)
James Boyd
Long Distance, 1944	41	(1)
James Boyd
New Weather	42	(1)
Carl Sandburg
Love Is a Deep and a Dark and a Lonely	42	(1)
Carl Sandburg
Personalia	43	(1)
Carl Sandburg
The Oceans of Dr. Johnson	44	(1)
Helen Bevington
January Jasmine	44	(1)
Helen Bevington
Postcard from Here	45	(1)
Helen Bevington
The Bright Plain	46	(1)
Charles Edward Eaton
Witness for the Defense	46	(2)
Charles Edward Eaton
The Player Piano	48	(1)
Randall Jarrell
The Mockingbird	49	(1)
Randall Jarrell
The Death of the Ball Turret Ganner	49	(1)
Randall Jarrell
Inner Ear	50	(1)
Frank Borden Hanes
Old Arrowhead Thoughts of a Late War	50	(1)
Frank Borden Hanes
Cardinal	51	(1)
Zoe Kincaid Brockman
Widows of Lidice	51	(1)
Zoe Kincaid Brockman
Lynching	52	(1)
Stewart Atkins
Boy on the Back of a Wagon	53	(1)
Thad Stem, Jr.
Blotting Paper	53	(1)
Thad Stem, Jr.
Uptight	54	(3)
Thad Stem, Jr.
Word and Witness: 1955--1979	57	(94)
Enthusiast	61	(1)
Jonathan Williams
Aunt Creasy, On Work	61	(1)
Jonathan Williams
Credo	62	(1)
Jonathan Williams
Beaucoup Buttercups	62	(1)
Jonathan Williams
The Flower-Hunter in the Fields	62	(2)
Jonathan Williams
Love Knows	64	(1)
Elanor Ross Taylor
Ironweed	64	(1)
Elanor Ross Taylor
In Case of Danger	64	(2)
Elanor Ross Taylor
How, for love, no poem will do	66	(1)
Elizabeth Sewell
The Yucca Moth	67	(1)
A. R. Ammons
Zero and Then Some	67	(2)
A. R. Ammons
Apologetics	69	(1)
A. R. Ammons
Giving Up Word with Words	69	(2)
A. R. Ammons
Maximus, to Himself	71	(2)
Charles Olson
God as Magician	73	(1)
Robert Watson
Planet Eight	73	(2)
Robert Watson
Word	75	(1)
Lou Lipsitz
Deserted Farm	76	(1)
Guy Owen
For James	76	(1)
Guy Owen
When We Dropped the Bomb	77	(1)
Guy Owen
An Image of Lichen	78	(1)
Guy Owen
Skimmers	79	(1)
Paul Baker Newman
Wreath	79	(1)
Paul Baker Newman
Audubon's Flute	80	(1)
Robert Morgan
The Gift of Tongues	81	(1)
Robert Morgan
Mountain Bride	82	(1)
Robert Morgan
Vietnam War Memorial	83	(1)
Robert Morgan
from Dark Testament	84	(2)
Pauli Murray
Goldfinches	86	(1)
Harold G. McCurdy
Lizard	86	(1)
Harold G. McCurdy
Strangers Like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh, 1945-1985	87	(1)
Gerald Barrax
Whose Children Are These?	87	(2)
Gerald Barrax
Something I Know about Her	89	(1)
Gerald Barrax
Carolina's Boat People	90	(1)
Rebecca Ball Rust
Haiku	90	(1)
Rebecca Ball Rust
Redounding	91	(1)
William Harmon
Memory in February	92	(1)
William Harmon
Cisternal Anecdote	93	(1)
James Seay
The Weather Wizard's Cloud Book	93	(1)
James Seay
Valentine with Hyphens, for, CLS-S	94	(1)
James Seay
Topsail Beach/Columbus Day	95	(1)
Robert Waters Grey
Singing Hymns Late at Night for My Father	96	(1)
Gibbons Ruark
Nightmare Inspection Tour for American Generals	97	(2)
Gibbons Ruark
Fast Ball	99	(1)
Fred Chappell
A Prayer for the Mountains	99	(1)
Fred Chappell
Grace Before Meat	100	(1)
Fred Chappell
The Stories	100	(1)
Fred Chappell
Earthsleep	100	(2)
Fred Chappell
Makura-Kotoba	102	(1)
Ronald Bayes
General John Meditates on Being Lonely	103	(1)
Ronald Bayes
But to Tell the Truth	103	(1)
Ronald Bayes
Things That Are True of Blue	104	(1)
Amon Liner
October Statement	105	(1)
Sam Ragan
That Summer	105	(1)
Sam Ragan
Seasons	106	(1)
Sam Ragan
The Girl in the Green Bathing Suit	106	(1)
Sam Ragan
The Marked and Unmarked	107	(1)
Sam Ragan
Breadstuff	108	(1)
Heather Ross Miller
Seventh Grades	108	(1)
Heather Ross Miller
Loss of Memory	109	(1)
Heather Ross Miller
Grammar	110	(1)
Marion Cannon
Brier Losing Touch with His Traditions	111	(1)
Jim Wayne Miller
Restoring an Old Farmhouse	112	(1)
Jim Wayne Miller
Some Notes on Courage	113	(1)
Susan Ludvigson
The Night We Sang	113	(2)
Susan Ludvigson
First Instruction in Prayer	115	(1)
Roger Sauls
When I Know the Power of My Black Hand	116	(1)
Lance Jeffers
On Listening to the Sprituals	116	(2)
Lance Jeffers
First Christmas	118	(1)
Reynolds Price
A Heron, A Deer---A Single Day	118	(2)
Reynolds Price
Hitting the Old Mark	120	(1)
Ann Deagon
Augury	121	(1)
Ann Deagon
Box-Camera Snapshot	122	(1)
Betty Adcock
Prophecy	123	(1)
Betty Adcock
The Clouded Leopards of Cambodia and Viet Nam	124	(1)
Betty Adcock
A Good Woman Feeling Bad	125	(1)
Maya Angelou
The Bread and Butter of Life	126	(1)
Emily Wilson
Memory	126	(1)
Emily Wilson
Temple-Building	127	(1)
Emily Wilson
The Craft Entering the Body	128	(1)
Chuck Sullivan
Cooking the Books	129	(2)
Chuck Sullivan
A Forge of Words	131	(1)
James Applewhite
The Morning After	132	(1)
James Applewhite
Storm in the Briar Patch	132	(1)
James Applewhite
A Leaf of Tobacco	133	(2)
James Applewhite
Cowpasture Baseball # 1	135	(1)
Thomas Walters
I Want to Make the Drums Talk Again	136	(1)
Linda Beatrice Brown
Myth: To the Fourth Generation	137	(1)
Grace Gibson
In Memoriam---for Guy Owen	138	(1)
John Foster West
from ``Seasons Such as These''	139	(1)
Sallie Nixon
Blue Hosanna	139	(1)
Sallie Nixon
Dowry	140	(1)
Ruth Moose
That Sunday	141	(1)
Ruth Moose
When the Water Wore My Face	142	(1)
Ruth Moose
Meditation	143	(1)
Kathryn Bright Gurkin
Shadows That Steep in Dreams of the New Ground	144	(1)
Hilda Downer
When January Is Cold	145	(1)
Shelby Stephenson
When in the Sun I Dream	145	(1)
Shelby Stephenson
Tobacco Days	146	(1)
Shelby Stephenson
Hymn to the Tenants	147	(4)
Shelby Stephenson
Word and Witness 1980--1999	151	(112)
Waiting for the Storyteller	155	(1)
Julie Suk
Sitting Out a War Once Removed	155	(1)
Julie Suk
La Dolce Vita	156	(2)
Julie Suk
The Yankee King	158	(1)
Thomas R. Hawkins
Hospital Ship: Cua Viet	159	(1)
Thomas R. Hawkins
How the River Took Daughtry McLamb	160	(1)
Stephen Smith
The 1950s	161	(1)
Stephen Smith
Whatever There Was to Say	161	(2)
Stephen Smith
On Watching Challenger	163	(1)
Marie Gilbert
Snake in Autumn	164	(1)
Jeffery Beam
The Eye Is Single	165	(1)
Grace DiSanto
A Whole Different Spin on the Ball	166	(1)
Shirley Moody
Women on the Pamlico	166	(1)
Shirley Moody
Birthright: To Catch the Light	167	(1)
Mary Snotherly
Text	168	(1)
Agnes McDonald
What Color Is the Sun?	169	(1)
Margaret Boothe Baddour
After	170	(2)
Peter Makuck
Dogwood Again	172	(1)
Peter Makuck
Honky Tonk Stradivarius	173	(1)
Bruce Piephoff
A Memory Not Quite Abandoned	174	(1)
Mary Kratt
Of Mother and Father	174	(1)
Mary Kratt
The Runner	175	(1)
Stephen Knauth
Winter's Secrets	176	(1)
Mab Segrest
Grandfather's Mandolin	176	(1)
Mab Segrest
Cats at Twilight	177	(1)
Harriet Doar
Around the Block	177	(1)
Harriet Doar
Shooting Baskets at Dusk	178	(1)
Michael McFee
Cold Quilt	178	(1)
Michael McFee
Phantoum	179	(2)
Michael McFee
things break down	181	(1)
Jaki Shelton Green
praise song	181	(1)
Jaki Shelton Green
the griot's song	182	(1)
Jaki Shelton Green
Woman in a Red Dress	183	(2)
Rudy Wallace
Prose Poem for Claire Aubin Fort	185	(1)
Charles Fort
For Martin Luther King	185	(1)
Charles Fort
Night Student	186	(1)
Nancy Simpson
The Words	187	(1)
Shirley Anders
Sneedsborough	188	(1)
Joseph Bathanti
Body Bags	189	(2)
R.S. Gwynn
Advice for Long Life	191	(1)
Anna Wooten-Hawkins
Blue Ridge Parkway	192	(1)
Evalyn Gill
Rockin' a Man, Stone Blind	193	(1)
Carolyn Beard Whitlow
Book of Ruth	193	(2)
Carolyn Beard Whitlow
Mountain Time	195	(1)
Kathryn Stripling Byer
The Backwoods	196	(1)
Kathryn Stripling Byer
Diamonds	197	(1)
Kathryn Stripling Byer
Second Waking	198	(1)
R. T. Smith
Vet	198	(2)
R. T. Smith
Embroidery	200	(1)
Sally Buckner
Piece by Piece	201	(2)
Robert Hill Long
X	203	(1)
Rebecca McClanahan
Teaching a Nephew to Type	204	(1)
Rebecca McClanahan
Between Losses	205	(1)
Judy Goldman
Letter to No Address	206	(1)
Lucinda Grey
Mud Dancing	207	(1)
Alan Shapiro
Turn	208	(1)
Alan Shapiro
For her	209	(1)
Isabel Zuber
Pine Lake at Twilight	210	(1)
Mary Belle Campbell
Putting Up Damson Preserves	211	(1)
Becky Gould Gibson
I'll be calling you up tonight	212	(1)
Earl S. Braggs
The Sunday Facts of a Partly Cherished Life	213	(2)
Earl S. Braggs
Evening Light	215	(1)
Anthony Abbott
Survival	216	(1)
Gladys Owings Hughes
The Canticle of the Skeleton	217	(3)
Steven Lautermilch
Morning Song	220	(1)
Paul Jones
Dialogue Concerning a Blue Convertible	221	(2)
Debra Kaufman
Lying Out	223	(1)
Mark Smith-Soto
Bubble	223	(1)
Mark Smith-Soto
Weave Room	224	(1)
Michael Chitwood
Big House	225	(1)
Michael Chitwood
I'll Fly Away	225	(2)
Michael Chitwood
The James River Express	227	(1)
Keith Flynn
Father-Son Basketball, 1970	228	(1)
Al Maginnes
Another Valentine	229	(1)
Deborah Pope
The Secret	229	(2)
Deborah Pope
Passage	231	(1)
Becke Roughton
Postcard	232	(1)
Michael White
Bear	233	(1)
Grey Brown
The Song Poem	234	(1)
Lenard Duane Moore
Pathway: From Son to Father	234	(1)
Lenard Duane Moore
Raleigh Jazz Festival, 1986	235	(1)
Lenard Duane Moore
From Desert Storm: A Brief History	236	(1)
Lenard Duane Moore
Magic Fathers	237	(1)
Stuart Dischell
Heaven	238	(1)
Gail Peck
Learning How to Pray	239	(1)
Cathy Smith Bowers
Driving Home	240	(1)
David Hopes
Two and One	241	(1)
Richard Chess
Clarissa and the Second Coming	242	(1)
Barbara Presnell
Solidarity in the Night	243	(1)
Marijo Moore
Ahlawe Usv' Tsigesvgi	243	(1)
Marijo Moore
Invisible tongues	244	(1)
Marijo Moore
Let's Say We Haven't Seen Each Other since Ninth Grade and We Met as Adults at a Welcome Center in Southside, Virginia	245	(2)
Dannye Romine Powell
Eleventh Grade: 1971	247	(1)
John York
High Noon at the Matinee	248	(1)
Maureen Douglass Sutton
Lot's Wife Looks Back	249	(1)
Diana Pinckney
This River	250	(1)
Annette Allen
Yeast Rolls & Water Biscuits	251	(1)
Carole Boston Weatherford
Barrel of Prayer	252	(1)
Marty Silverthorne
Immigrants	253	(1)
Debra Kang Dean
U S	254	(1)
Sarah Lindsay
My Father Never Talked of Love	255	(1)
Susan Meyers
Ahaluna	256	(1)
Debora Kinsland
Apocalypse	257	(1)
Denise Blue
Tending and Turning	258	(1)
l. Teresa Church
Cafe Au Lait	258	(1)
l. Teresa Church
Dogwood Alarm	259	(1)
Margaret Rabb
How Long Did It Take?	260	(3)
Keith S. Petersen
Afterword	263	(4)
Fred Chappell
Major North Carolina Literary Awards	267	(6)
Biographical Notes	273	(26)
Selected Bibliography	299