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In Winterkill, Todd Davis, who, according to Gray's Sporting Journal, "observes nature in the great tradition of Robert Frost, James Dickey, and Jim Harrison," offers an unflinching portrait of the cycles of birth and death in the woods and streams of Pennsylvania, while never leaving behind the tragedies and joys of the human world. Fusing narrative and lyrical impulses, in his fifth book of poetry Davis seeks to address the living world through a lens of transformation. In poems of praise and sorrow that draw upon the classical Chinese rivers-and-mountains tradition, Davis chronicles the creatures of forest and sky, of streams and lakes, moving through cycles of fecundity and lack, paying witness to the fundamental processes of the earth that offer the possibility of regeneration, even resurrection. Meditations on subjects from native brook trout to the ants that scramble up a compost pile; from a young diabetic girl burning trash in a barrel to a neighbor's denial of global warming; from an examination of the bone structure in a rabbit's skull to a depiction of a boy who can name every bird by its far-off song, these are poems that both celebrate and lament the perfectly imperfect world that sustains us. |
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Nicrophorus -- Part I -- Homily -- Phenology: Actias luna -- Afterlife -- Sulphur Hatch -- Mud Dauber -- In a Dream William Stafford Visits Me -- By the Rivers of Babylon -- Drouth -- After the Third Concussion -- What My Neighbor Tells Me Isn't Global Warming -- Grievous -- Yu -- Wu -- After Reading Han Shan -- Cenotaph -- Crow's Murder -- Aesthetics Precedes Ethics -- Signified -- Fire Suppression -- Whip-poor-will -- Part II -- Salvelinus fontinalis -- Part III -- At the Raptor Rehabilitation Center -- Carnivore -- Burn Barrel -- Chorale for the Newly Dead -- October Gloriole -- Ornithological -- Fenestration, an Eclogue -- Winterkill -- The Field Moving Inside the Field -- Visible Spectrum -- After Considering My Retirement Account -- Self Portrait with Fish and Water -- Final Complaint -- The Last Time My Mother Lay Down with My Father -- Morning along the Little J, before the Hurricane Makes Landfall -- Brief Meditation at Nightfall -- Monongahela Nocturne -- Ash Wednesday -- Wood Tick -- How Our Children Know They'll Go to Heaven -- Circus Train Derailment -- Part IV -- Turning the Compost at 50 -- Ode Scribbled on the Back of a Hunting Tag -- How Animals Forgive Us -- Reading Entrails -- Translation Problems -- Epistemology, with July Moon -- Poem Made of Sadness and Water -- The Light around the Little Green Heron -- Monarchs -- Canticle for Native Brook Trout -- Silkworm Parable -- July Letter to Chris D. -- Revelation -- Priest -- Benediction -- Thieves -- Transfiguration of the Beekeeper's Daughter -- April Landscape, with Petals/Furrows/Wife -- August Hatch: Thinking of My Son aft er the Goldenrod Blooms -- What I Know about Death and Resurrection -- Dreams of the Dead Father -- Acknowledgments. |
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. |
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20th century |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Print version: Davis, Todd F., 1965- Winterkill. East Lansing : Michigan State Univ Press, [2016] 1611861969 9781611861969 |
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9781609174828 (electronic book) |
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1609174828 (electronic book) |
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9781628962574 (electronic book) |
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1628962577 (electronic book) |
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1611861969 (paperback) |
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9781611861969 (paperback) |
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9781628952575 (ePub) |
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