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1 online resource (xv, 247 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Alaska literary series
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Alaska literary series.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; New Poems, Part One: The Genealogy of Beer; In Praise of the Neolithic; The Genealogy of Beer (A Blend of Beck's and Guinness Stout); Loving in the Autumn Rain; Homeric Erotica; Anna (Feast of the Dormition of Saint Anne, July 25/August 8); Anniversary Poem (1988); Lunchtime at Taguchi's (An idyll for Sam and the Gang); Rissa in the Rain; Mother's Day 1988; Seed Dispersal (Juneau, Alaska, July 20, 1988); Dominic's Poem; Chemawa School Cemetery (Founded 1886); August Afternoon at Helle's Pool, Vancouver, Washington; Jamie, Racing Off; Soccer Squad. |
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Red Dogs and OnionsTumor (1996); Croquet, Nickerson Pitch; Breakfast at Grandma Nora's; The Facts of Life; Image of Nora, Rendering Seal Oil; Translating Pasternak; Awaiting Discharge; Based, of course, on hearsay; Epiphany 2008; Sensory Overload (Viewing the Buddhist Tapestries at the Sacred Arts of Bhutan Exhibit, Honolulu Academy of Arts, April 2008); Waikiki, the Breakers; Sonnet on National Security in the Bush-Cheney Reign (Lines Disclosed in a Doctor's Waiting Room); After Finishing an Activities Report for the Dean; Dating Myself. |
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Thoughts after Working on Salmon Eggs from our GrandsonForwarding John Updike's "Baseball" on The Writer's Almanac, June 22, 2009; Unfinished Business; Triptych: Easter 2011; Joyriding; Gardening with Elijah; Meditation on Dandelionsin Morning Sunlight; New Poems, Part Two: Juneau Sketches; Daanaawaak / Silver Dollar Eye: Supermarket Satori; Phenomenology of Moss; Shark Fins; Easter Monday; Song Sparrow; Ear-shattering; July 5, 2009; Sunrise; Daybreak; Through Study Window; Iambics for the Southeast Alaska Regional Cross-Country Meet September 20, 2003; Parody of Spring; View of Auke Lake. |
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Fleet of Mountain PeaksAll Saints Day (November 1, 2006); November 10; Gift of Bohemian Waxwings; Winter Promise; New Poems, Part Three: Congestive Heart Failure: Letting Go; Landscapes of the Heart; A Meditation: Against the Dying of the Light; A Formal Elegy (Thinking of Dylan Thomas); New Poems, Part Four: Excerpts from the Cycle Lacrimosa: The Social Web of Cancer; Homage to Po Chü-i; Donuts; Tough Guy; Approaching Winter Solstice; Nunc Dimittis; Remembering Ron; Atonement 2009; Basho: Open Road; New Poems, Part Five: Harvesting; First Day of Fall; Foraging; Harvesting Potatoes. |
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Digging SpudsOctober Rain; The Tides Forecasting Winter; Potatoes, 2003; Falling in the Garden; Life Support; Harvest Festival; Every Garden Grows One; Selected Poems, Part One:Poems from Little Magazines,1963-1969; The Pall Bearers; Ukrainian Flirtation Dance; At the Spring: Glasby Pond, Fall 1963; Uncle Martin, 1963; Tootsie; Thought and Memory: Finland, Summer 1963; Neva Farm (Finland, 1963); Berrying (Finland, 1963); Ilmatar: Finland, 1966; Full Moon: Finland, 1966; Housewife (Finland, 1967). |
| Summary |
Russian, German, Tlingit. Like the languages he translates, Richard Dauenhauer's poetry offers unexpected surprises. A prolific translator who also works in Finnish, Swedish, and classical Greek, he has a poetic command of language that has earned him wide recognition over fifty years of published work. Benchmarks spans these decades of writing, and each poem contained within marks a certain place in time and space, like a surveyor's benchmark. The poems play with language while focusing on the land and people of Alaska. And like Alaska itself, this book offers a variety of delights-readers wi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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American poetry.
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American poetry. |
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poems. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013001741
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Print version: Dauenhauer, Richard, author. Poems. Selections. Benchmarks 9781602232099 (DLC) 2012048322 (OCoLC)824119548 |
| ISBN |
9781602232105 (electronic book) |
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1602232105 (electronic book) |
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1602232105 (electronic) |
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9781602232099 |
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1602232091 |
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