A ladder of cranes / Tom Sexton.

Whether watching men releasing caged birds at dawn in New York City or a ladder of cranes rising from a field in Manitoba, Tom Sexton is a keen observer of the interconnectedness of the natural and human worlds. The former Alaska poet laureate takes to the road in this new collection, wending a lyri...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Sexton, Tom, 1940- (Author)
Other title:Poems. Selections.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, [2015]
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505 0 |a The Bird Walkers of Roosevelt Park; Pied-billed Grebe on the Concord River; At the Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Massachusetts; Blueberry Barren at Dusk; Eastport, Maine; Star Marrow; First Anna's Hummingbird Sighted in Newfoundland; Statue of a Union Soldier; A Ladder of Cranes; White-tailed Buck in a Pasture; Winter Thaw; Glass Eels; Po Chü-I's Cook; Mozart's Starling; On the Death of Seamus Heaney; Innisfree, Western Alberta; Mundare, Alberta; The Wolf of Gubbio; Gray Wolf; Medieval Bestiary: The Wolf; Killing the Kenai Peninsula's Wolves; Fall Raspberries; Fireweed; Insomnia. 
505 8 |a To the Chinese PoetsBlack Spruce; Fall Migration; To the Poet John Haines on His Eighty-fifth Birthday; Resolution Park; The Man from Here; Galaxies; The Church at Ninilchik, Alaska; Swans on Cook Inlet; Solitude; After Walking in Rain on a Sunday Morning; Reading Li Bai While the Moon Rises; Magpie at Twilight; Looking at the Ferry Museum's Salish Baskets; Starring, Western Alaska; The Loon at Shackford Head; Cow Moose and Magpie; Cloudberry Wine; Our Hand-carved Ornament of a Great Blue Heron; President Harding's Pullman Car, Fairbanks, Alaska; Westchester Lagoon; The Mist Net. 
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