Keep And Give Away
Subtitle: Poems (South Carolina Poetry Book Prize)
Contributors: Terrance Hayes (Foreword)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: June 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781570036705
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; American - General; Poetry
First sentence: You sit on the front steps in love with the little birds, the finches &amp; sparrows fidgeting from leafy cover, not that they need you cheering them on to eat the seed at the feeders hung just for them sunflower, millet, a white sock of thistle; but when the hawk lowers its broad red shoulders and sits, alone, on the limb of the cherry tree, after the little birds, seeing it coming, have scattered like ifs and whens you pull for the hawk, admiring its heft, the turn of its head, not to mention the unblenched eyes, its black-banded tail.