Gnawed bones
Subtitle: poems
By: Peggy Shumaker
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781597091565
Subjects: Mortality; Women authors; Families; Poetry; American poetry
Description: Peggy Shumaker's sixth full-length collection, "Gnawed Bones," is perhaps her finest. Shumaker covers a wide range--but she casts a far more personal eye, worrying at the puzzle of human relationships as well as human connection to the land itself.
Table of contents: title: I. July twilight on the Chena.; title: July twilight on the Chena --; title: What we get used to --; title: Sea change --; title: Snapshot --; title: Polished table --; title: Deliverance --; title: Pheasant --; title: Gnawed bones --; title: Nests, an elegy --; title: Smoke --; title: When the ground cannot take in more rain --; title: Night drive --; title: Night watch --; title: As war goes on --; title: Bugler, Ft. Wainwright, Alaska --; title: Dive, three definitions -- -- II. Mystery aisle.; title: The provider  --; title: Desert odyssey --; title: Touch and go --; title: Always the entertainer --; title: Rinsing that tomato --; title: You're here --; title: Chickens --; title: Swallows --; title: Ha ha ha --; title: No sign --; title: My father never --; title: Beyond words, this language --; title: Radio control --; title: No one knows how to speak --; title: Albóndigas --; title: Portal -- -- III. Mother of sorrows.; title: Land fraud nosebleed  --; title: Desert climbing --; title: Better homes --; title: Go to the broom closet and pick out a stick --; title: Horny toads --; title: Asthma --; title: Our mother of sorrows --; title: Sky of souls --; title: Upset woman --; title: You should know better --; title: Glyphs on a limestone stela --; title: All the mustaches on all the Judases --; title: The aroma of rain in the desert --; title: Mango --; title: Ocotillo --; title: Norwegian wood --; title: Mother tongue --; title: The painting I didn't buy -- -- IV. Naming what we hold in our hand.; title: Wilderness  --; title: Pale woman on stretcher --; title: What next --; title: A brief aside --; title: Narrow roads to/from the interior --; title: Missing --; title: Strokes --; title: Lapse --; title: Hard stick --; title: Spleen --; title: Shower --; title: Good sign --; title: Naming what we hold in our hand --; title: Kus-sun-ar --; title: Oatmeal --; title: In praise, ephemera --; title: Chatanika --; title: Long before we got here, long after we're gone.