Title: Forgive us our happiness /
Authors: Forhan, Chris, 1959-; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: University Press of New England,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Poetry.
Contents: Family History -- Lament and Proposal -- Something or Other -- Reading for Pleasure -- To Faint Forth Tearfully -- The New World -- The Old Sense -- The States We Knew in School and Now Are Driving Through -- An Honest Forest -- Slightly, Inevitably, as a Wave -- A Dog's Game -- Absolution -- Song -- O.K. Fine -- The Workings of the Internal Combustion Engine -- Done with It -- A Sickly Child -- Coming To -- Yes, Well -- Good Boy -- Cracking Open -- What Furniture Means -- Ginger Cake -- What the Earth Knows -- The Taste of Wild Cherry -- Bits and Pieces -- Night Construction -- Elegy -- Reprisal -- Then Again -- The Woman Who Could Not Wear a Hat -- The Church of the Backyard -- Resignation -- Without Presumptions -- Assent to Winter -- As Columbus Would Have It, the Earth Like a Pear -- Testimony -- Borrowed Angels -- Panorama without a View -- Big Jigsaw -- Always This Droning When I Come Calling -- Sanctum Sanctorum -- The Vastness. The Distant Twinkling -- But Look Where Sadly the Poor Wretch Comes Reading -- Land Edged by Water -- River -- Against Summer -- The Garden I'm Given.