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Author:

Shumaker, Peggy, 1952-

Title:

Gnawed bones : poems / Peggy Shumaker.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Red Hen Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

108 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Mortality--Poetry.
Families--Poetry.--Poetry.

Contents:

IV. Naming what we hold in our hand. -- Long before we got here, long after we're gone. What we get used to -- Sea change -- Snapshot -- Polished table -- Deliverance -- Pheasant -- Gnawed bones -- Nests, an elegy -- Smoke -- When the ground cannot take in more rain -- Night drive -- Night watch -- As war goes on -- Bugler, Ft. Wainwright, Alaska -- Dive, three definitions -- II. Mystery aisle. -- The provider -- Desert odyssey -- Touch and go -- Always the entertainer -- Rinsing that tomato -- You're here -- Chickens -- Swallows -- Ha ha ha -- No sign -- My father never -- Beyond words, this language -- Radio control -- No one knows how to speak -- Alb©đndigas -- Portal -- III. Mother of sorrows. -- Land fraud nosebleed -- Desert climbing -- Better homes -- Go to the broom closet and pick out a stick -- Horny toads -- Asthma -- Our mother of sorrows -- Sky of souls -- Upset woman -- You should know better -- Glyphs on a limestone stela -- All the mustaches on all the Judases -- The aroma of rain in the desert -- Mango -- Ocotillo -- Norwegian wood -- Mother tongue -- The painting I didn't buy -- IV. Naming what we hold in our hand. -- Wilderness -- Pale woman on stretcher -- What next -- A brief aside -- Narrow roads to/from the interior -- Missing -- Stroke -- -- Lapse -- Hard stick -- Spleen -- Shower -- Good sign -- Naming what we hold in our hand -- Kus-sun-ar -- Oatmeal -- In praise, ephemera -- Chananika -- Long before we got here, long after we're gone.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1597091561 (pbk.)
9781597091565 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)457149324

LCCN:

2009930459

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)