Below Cold Mountain
Subtitle: [poems]
By: Joseph Stroud.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Port Townsend, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
Description: In The First Law of Thermodynamics, he writes: "...ashes stuffed in shotgun shells. They walked through the woods and fired aimlessly into the trees--he came down everywhere in a powdery rain...the memory of a boy walking under trees showering him with leaves."
Table of contents: title: Provenance; title: Suite for the common; title: The magician; title: Night in day; title: Homage to Rolf Jacobsen; title: Homage to the black walnut ...; title: Mercy, mercy; title: That life is a circle of Heraclitean fire; title: The first law of thermodynamics; title: Chaos theory: equation; title: The orchard; title: All through the night the mockingbird sang; title: Every summer the riots; title: Lost; title: Love in the classical world; title: Biophysics; title: Hear that phone ringing?; title: What she told me in Orland, California; title: The life of a dog; title: Go fetch it!; title: Matar la noche; title: The nightingales of Andalucía; title: And raised my hand in return; title: Hacedor; title: He asked, and we began the train into the heart; title: My father died; title: The others, O Lord, for my time has not yet come; title: Was not prepared for the death of my father; title: In the maze garden of the Generalife; title: He told me to come back and see; title: Love's more difficult translation; title: The song of divorce; title: In this flesh; title: Where language fails; title: In Puerto Vallarta once; title: Reading Cavafy alone in bed; title: Idle; title: Come and get it; title: In the body of the dragon; title: And for this also I am ashamed; title: After the opera; title: From time to time turning my head to see; title: Die Schwermut; title: The words of Chilam Balam; title: Babbette; title: Missing; title: Earth angel; title: Can you hear it?; title: The years like crows coming home to roost; title: Walking on the Shining Path; title: In sepia; title: This waiting; title: Love like a catch of fire; title: These nights, passing through; title: Dissolving; title: No lexicon; title: Ezra under the constellation of the dragon; title: Comice; title: Rock me on the waters; title: Our blood is red coral ...; title: Simple gifts; title: And the white goat tethered to a fig tree; title: Homage to life; title: Listening to Leon; title: Islands; title: Autumn; title: Alam Al-Mithral; title: Of Sappho/[shards]/Sabi; title: Homage to the presence of mystery among us; title: Bible; title: Postcards to Cold Mountain; title: Homage to night; title: Questions and answers; title: Homage to the word-hoard; title: Listening to Issa; title: Homage: Doo Wop; title: Directions; title: Oh yes; title: Homage: Summer/winter, Shay Creek; title: Alchemy: final music; title: Steps to the river; title: Memories at the movies; title: Notes toward a 19th century painting; title: Cézanne and the noumenal world; title: Portrait of the artist as a young boy; title: Waiting for the barbarians; title: Shape-shifter; title: Sky diving; title: In the dragon's mouth; title: Venom; title: How green the leaves in sunlight are; title: Death in the Tehachapi; title: Knots; title: Grief; title: Feral; title: Crossing the island; title: Seizure; title: Lines; title: Auvergne; title: Crossing over, and back; title: By the rivers of Babylon.