Marking the Magic Circle
Subtitle: An Intimate Geography
By: by George Venn ; with photographs by Jan Boles.
Publisher: Oregon State University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Corvallis, OR
Language: eng
Format: Quality Paperback
Number of pages: 196
Description: Paperback collection of poetry, fiction, essays, and Chinese translations
Notes: Bibliography: p. 173-175.
Includes poems in Chinese with translation into English.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: ~; title: "*"A Note To the Reader viii; title: "*"Acknowledgments x; title: "*"I.; title: Marking the Magic Circle 2; title: Venn Confesses an Early Crime 21; title: The First Day of Summer 22; title: A Gallon of Honey in Glass 35; title: "*"II.; title: The Trail to School	38; title: A Note for Primary Art 40; title: Poem Against the First Grade 44; title: The Office 46; title: Fourteen Modes of Local Discourse in the; title: Composing Process 48; title: "*" III.; title: Making Porridge 54; title: You Want to Go to Town? 57; title: Out in the County 66; title: Builds Strong Bodies Twelve Ways 68 Conjuring a Basque Ghost 80; title: "*"IV.; title: Continuity in Northwest Literature 84; title: Report from East ofthe Mountains 110; title: Coyote TeachesJesus a New Word 112; title: Fence Post Talks 114; title: "*"V.; title: Cactus 116 [translation of Chinese poet Ai Qing]; title: Hail 118 [translation of Chinese poet Ai Qing]; title: Opening in the wall 120; title: Fish Fossil 130 [translation of Chinese poet Ai Qing]; title: The Lost Years 134 [translation of Chinese poet Ai Qing]; title: "*"VI.; title: Sooner or Later, Something's Got to- 140; title: Blue Hour: Grandview Cemetery 154; title: Nard Jones, Weston, and Oregon Detour 156; title: Writing on the Hill 176; title: "*"VII.; title: Directions for Visitors 180; title: Barn 182; title: Forgive Us . .. 192; title: Sleeping upstairs 194