Title: The trouble-making finch : poems /
Authors: Roberts, Len, 1947-2007; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: American poetry; Catholic schools Poetry.
Abstract: On his own at sixteen after being raised by an alcoholic father and an abusive mother, Len Roberts is best known for poems of stark imagery that concentrate on his progress in life and how he has come to an acceptance of life's flux.
Contents: Acupuncture and Cleansing at Forty-Eight -- 518 -- Silence on the Day My Father Was Carried Away -- The Equation -- Tapping in the Seed -- Contemplating Again the Jade Chrysanthemum; or, Why the Ancient Chinese Poets Remained Unmarried -- Mission, Late March, 1960 -- Snapper, Wassergass -- The Blacktop Act -- The Trouble-Making Finch -- All day cutting wood, thinking -- Sister Ann Zita Shows Us the Foolishness of the Forbidden Books -- Climbing the Three Hills in Search of the Best Christmas Tree -- And where were you -- Ice Man, 1931 -- Double Yolk -- In Cursive -- Correcting the Lisp -- Anointing Her Five Senses -- Terrible Angels -- The Long Ride Home -- Thinning the Walnuts -- Angels in the Experimental Catechism/Math Class -- Obedient -- The Stone -- God's Blessing -- The saints always -- What Kind of Man -- My son won't stop making -- Last night, between dusk and -- In the Mind of God -- Nailing in New Braces -- The Burning Hours -- Taking Inventory as She Weeds -- Any Place, Any Time -- Doing the Laundry -- Noon, Wednesday in Wassergass -- A shoe in the road, autumn's -- Ripping slate off the barn roof -- She Returns for the Last Putting On of Oil -- Rain Wash -- Elmer -- Working Blacktop, 1963 -- The Flying Monk in Flames -- Burning the Angels -- Planting Damascus Firs -- The Rare Coin -- We Were Insects and Animals -- Thin Pages -- Knots.