10. After Later?. Dear Li-Po -- -- My Grandfather in Green -- Raven Slaughter and the Dream Machine -- I Wish I Remembered His Name -- Reading Larry Levis' Last Poems -- All Her Life -- It's All Possible -- Darwish and Amichai in Heaven -- To My Friend in Aleppo -- Your Third Resurrection -- A Minyan Plus One -- The Turning -- Of Longing and Chutzpah -- 1. Mouth to Mouth -- 2. My Mother Cuts My Hair -- 3. My Mother's Other Life -- 4. My Mother's Poems -- 5. The Shopping Carts -- 6. All Our Years of Mother and Son -- 7. Pa -- 8. My Mother Died on Simchat Torah -- 9. The Exchange -- 10. Yahrzeit for My Mother -- Coda: "put the put aside in the middle of the poem" -- The Devotees -- The Sentinel -- They Sang Her a Name -- Koi-R-Us -- Kobe Bryant Competes with King David at the Gallerie dell Aceademia -- This Crazy Devotion -- My Father's Radio Interview -- One of the Immortals -- Zone Meeting with Mr. Goldberg -- The Service -- Bird at the Open Window -- The Lady Slipper -- Sweet Fruit of Recurrence -- Garden Chronicle -- Garden Chronicle -- After Later?.
Summary:
"In his latest poetry collection, Philip Terman celebrates his not so crazy devotion to family, heritage, and nature, with his Jewish faith and culture woven through an atypically rural and bucolic pastoral"-- Provided by publisher.
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