Take Heart
Subtitle: Poems from Maine the Complete Collection
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Blue Ridge Summit
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781684750801
Subjects: American poetry; Poetry
Description: It is commonplace that poetry is the literary form that best expresses our deepest feelings. Those who seldom read poetry regularly turn to it for weddings, funerals, and other milestones. Former Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair selected the poems in this anthology for his weekly newspaper column from the work of poets all over Maine, representing a wide cultural view of the state.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

6. What the Creatures Say
Table of contents: title: Take Heart; title: CONTENTS; title: Introduction; title: 1. Heart Faces; title: Mr. Fix-It; title: Peaches; title: Spaghetti Western Days; title: Roses; title: Cullen: Four Days Old, Waking; title: Eighty-Five; title: Watermelon; title: 1940; title: Rained Out; title: The Man Who Likes Cows; title: Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink; title: Her Telling; title: Mom Gets In One of My Poems; title: Resurrection; title: Hands Reaching; title: Sentences; title: Where He Went; title: Housekeeping of a Kind; title: The Crossing; title: If You Should Die Before I Do; title: Old; title: The Cross of Snow; title: The Power of It; title: Sixty; title: Feasting; title: Regeneration; title: 2. The Place Inside the Place; title: The Glass Harmonica; title: The Street; title: Potatoes; title: Winter Friends; title: Essence; title: Porcupine; title: Mud Season; title: Night Wind in Spring; title: April and Then May; title: Stealing Lilacs; title: The Poet; title: How to Catch a Poem; title: In Nightgowns; title: Night; title: Some Clear Night; title: Which World; title: Driving Down East; title: The Red and Green Cement Truck; title: The Dump Pickers; title: Understory; title: Mantis; title: Moth at My Window; title: Garden Spider; title: Lost Graveyards; title: Gulls in Wind; title: The Habitation; title: The Last Lamp-Lighters; title: Closing Time; title: 3. Changes of Heart; title: The Net; title: Making the Turn; title: The Geese; title: Inland; title: Hearing Your Words, and Not a Word Among Them; title: Humane Society; title: Reuben Bright; title: Sudden Death; title: January; title: A Little Bit of Timely Advice; title: Early Morning Trumpet; title: April Prayer; title: Transportation; title: Nude; title: The Alligator's Hum; title: Ball Smacks Mouth, Splits Lip; title: Sandwiches; title: The Goldfish; title: The Plymouth on Ice; title: The Hands; title: Divorce; title: Feed My Birds; title: Hummingbird; title: Hen; title: Loon Return; title: Regret; title: Snap; title: He Sees the Future; title: Musician; title: Today, the Traffic Signals All Changed for Me; title: Last Writes; title: 4. The World and Back Again; title: What Positions Do They And We Assume in the Encapsulated Stillness?; title: For the Falling Man; title: United States; title: Airfield; title: Night Patrol; title: Unknown Algonquin Females, Circa 1800s; title: Nobody at Treblinka; title: To Jesus on His Birthday; title: From the Toy Box; title: Out Here; title: Free Agent; title: To the Infinitesimal; title: Death and the Turtle; title: Nature; title: Question in a Field; title: To an Artist, to Take Heart; title: Salt to the Brain; title: Where Inspiration Has Learned a Thing or Two; title: Spring Thaw; title: Growing Lettuce; title: Zones of Peeper; title: Fiddleheads; title: My Hairy Legs; title: Spring Cleaning; title: A Parrot; title: Spooked Moose; title: New England Asters; title: They All Come Back; title: The Clerks; title: Frenchboro; title: Washington County, Maine; title: By Passamaquoddy Bay; title: Coming Home; title: 5. What It's Like There; title: Home; title: Eel-Grass; title: Sixty-Five Degrees; title: Magic Show; title: Up with Fishermen and Birds; title: The Saint of Returnables; title: Peonies; title: Summer Episcopalians; title: A Piano at Evening; title: Villanelle for the Pond; title: Appointment; title: Island Transport; title: In the Pasture; title: July Storm; title: From Cadillac Mountain; title: Glacial Erotic; title: The Great Rock in the Woods; title: Rock Maples; title: Shopping Together; title: September Staying; title: From "Under Mount Blue"; title: Crossing the Blueberry Barrens; title: Vespers; title: Snow-Flakes; title: Splitting Wood in Winter; title: Starting the Subaru at Five Below