Winter amnesties

Winter amnesties / Elton Glaser.

Winter Amnesties is a book of origins and endings, griefs and reconciliations. Each poem addresses the dilemma posed by G.K. Chesterton: "One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it." The poems revisit the past, assess the present, and stare hard into the future. At...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glaser, Elton
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
Series:Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
Subjects:
Poetry.
poetry.
POETRY > American > General.
Poetry
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; One; Clearing the Ground; Hymn and Field Holler; Suppertime; Introibo at 5 a.m.; Epiphany Stick; Dancing Lessons; The Summoning; Seminary Easter; King Cake Party; Somniloquy; American Flyer; Junkyard Blues; Winter Inset; Cradlesong; Two; Crows in a Locust Tree; Turning with the Animals; First Earth; Seapiece; This Late, This Far; Shadows by Giacometti; Freefall at Evening; Nothing of Ourselves; Hibernation; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; A Little Daymusic; Late Returns in Eden; Bird Lady; Dog Nights; Sunny Side Up; Sub Rosa; Underfoot.
  • Half-Ode at HarvestThree; This Is Your; Zero Summer; Bifocal; Long in the Tooth; The Effects of Myth at Two below Zero; Le Piano Introspectif; The Faith of Forty; Smoking; Dirge in the Chalumeau Register; Spry Declensions; Refusing October; Purge; Principles of Conversion; Forecasts; Last Poem of Summer; Deathbed Edition; Also in the Series; Back Cover.

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