Winterkill : poems

Winterkill : poems / by Todd Davis.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Todd F., 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2016]
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American poetry > 20th century.
POETRY > American > General.
American poetry
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Nicrophorus
  • 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
  • II. Salvelinus fontinalis
  • 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
  • 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 after the goldenrod blooms ; What I know about death and resurrection ; Dreams of the dead father.

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