Taking the switchback
By: Stephen Gardner.
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Huntsville, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9781933896335
Table of contents: title: I. Fore and aft. Going home ; Banjo ; Riverbank ; 2 A.M., incense, a quart of gin, my dog with a bone ; Spring, Saturday suburbia ; Not about trees ; Why he doesn't sleep ; He meditates ; Taking pictures ; The carpenter's real anguish ; Walpurgis ; The drinker ; Memo to myself ; Moving: along the edges ; Waiting to leave ; On the edge in St. Louis ; Directions for finding the best way out ; Fore and aft ; The private miner speaks at last ; Waterfall; Below the cliff ; Good woman ; Saving lives; title: II. Here it is. Happy ; A day at the beach on the outskirts of Topeka ; Dolphins ; In country ; The mercantile theory ; Portage ; The secret traveler ; Home voyager ; Pastoral in the shadow of a city ; Making love ; Drinking toward sleep ; Relativity ; Motivated ; Marginal ; Jones ; Mainlining ; Blizzard ; Light rain, early fall ; Wading ; In late May ; Everlovin' ; Any day now ; What will happen ; It's the rain ; Seasoning ; This night ; Here it is ; Taking the switchback.