This is what the desert surrenders
Subtitle: new and selected poems
By: Shaun T. Griffin
Publisher: The Black Rock Press, University of Nevada, Reno
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Reno, Nevada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781891033612
Subjects: American poetry
Notes: "Rainshadow Editions."
Table of contents: title: New poems.; title: My sons who have no opera to console them --; title: Letter from the Hood River Shallows --; title: Reading Jeffers in the rainy January dawn --; title: Leaving hunger in the American West --; title: Rain outside Lovelock, late March --; title: The meth addict out my window --; title: A leaf at the Board of Pardons --; title: When Jake came wheezing to the door --; title: The fallen season --; title: Letter to Ken in farthest Logan --; title: Stacking wood in heavy snow, days before Christmas --; title: Daffodils one Sunday before snow --; title: Running to Southern California --; title: What they cannot say before dark --; title: On the terraza --; title: Every day she comes to Spain --; title: Los Vendedores --; title: Hunting for rain --; title: September light --; title: Heron dance --; title: Now I sit the saddle to freedom --; title: Palliative --; title: What the flower might say to family --; title: Sunflower ridge --; title: When a poem drew its breath --; title: in the late autumn of a Friday at work --; title: Letter to my wife from the coastal plain --; title: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge --; title: From Snowmelt.; title: Snowmelt --; title: All the worthwhile things --; title: On Highway 50 --; title: A place of stone --; title: On the San Francisco Zephyr --; title: In a sparse tone --; title: Thien Hong --; title: Woman empty --; title: In December steam --; title: While stones rage --; title: The contours of travel --; title: Face of light --; title: Social work --; title: portrait of a lady --; title: Baja California Sur --; title: Father's coral heart --; title: To my son --; title: Married student housing --; title: Watch him walk --; title: If you are unable --; title: From Bathing in the river of ashes.; title: After lunch at the Blueberry Cafe: Las Vegas, 1994 --; title: Hawthorne --; title: The Meyer Cabin, Jarbridge --; title: At the Old Santa Fe Club in Goldfield --; title: Nevada no longer --; title: On the death of the culture dog --; title: Nevada's last bookstore --; title: First cast, late December, Pyramid Lake --; title: Magpie funeral --; title: They go gathering pine nuts --; title: First and last things --; title: La Desterrada --; title: Un moreno en la cocina --; title: A brown man in the kitchen --; title: This is not love's offering --; title: "Seems I'm all I've got anymore" --; title: Madonna in traffic --; title: Visiting day --; title: The Somali cab driver tells of ethnic cleansing --; title: Hart Senate Building, Washington, D.C. --; title: At the river's edge --; title: black english vernacular --; title: Until they come home --; title: Those people --; title: Bathing in the river of ashes --; title: From Winter in pediatrics.; title: It was not blame --; title: Mosquitoes --; title: Rooms --; title: In the tent of miracles --; title: Driving to the forest after work --; title: Without adolescence --; title: The heart donor --; title: The unwanted cowboy --; title: Watch him disappear --; title: The iris ballet --; title: The record of hands --; title: Witness to questions --; title: Sister to the vine --; title: Last night we were told war is imminent --; title: After surgery --; title: Programmer --; title: Survivor --; title: Father to an imaginary grandson --; title: Lunch with the Trabajadoras --; title: In the chaplain's shadow --; title: How she works --; title: Song for Wilena --; title: From Woodsmoke, wind, and the peregrine.; title: First light, Collioure --; title: The blue heron at first light --; title: The last songbird on Malta --; title: Resurrection --; title: Hummingbird --; title: Ode to Carmen's chickens --; title: Red-tail in a snow field --; title: Ezra's crow --; title: The goldfinches at mid-morning --; title: When the Buttons leave for school --; title: The snowy egret slough --; title: Releasing sparrows at the Buddhist temple --; title: Emerald Lake --; title: Postcard to Wally easterly from here --; title: in the loneliest town on highway --; title: Waking from the charcoal dark --; title: The loons on Walker Lake --; title: The Grey Elliot Riff --; title: City of gray --; title: Tanager --; title: On the porch --; title: Late harvest without moon --; title: The ornithologist's prayer.