The man who saws us in half : poems / Ron Houchin.
Through silence and song, death and rebirth, a sense of wonder pervades every minute of our lives. In The Man Who Saws Us in Half, Ron Houchin explores this idea from the first curiosities of childhood to the gradual skepticism that comes with age and the weight of practical concerns. In the whimsic...
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| Other title: | Poems. Selections. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Southern messenger poets.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; January Night Testament; So Tired; The Green Snake; Summer Tenants; Interpretation of Silence; Katherine Skating the Ohio, 1916; String Theory; Reverence for Beds; The Good Earth; River Night; Body Farm; Lament of the Retired Coal Mine Canary; Tending the Fire; Glass and Water; The Coal Globe; Tender; In Praise of Comb-Overs; Lost in the Cemetery; Stray City Dog; My Father's House; Everything Is a Place; Why I Watch the National Geographic Channel; Snails in the Garden; Mermaid's Funeral; At the Casto Sleep Clinic, 1995; Reflections of the Shape Shifter.
- Hidden Places That Open SuddenlyThe Intention of Trees; Thin Quarters; One Step Removed; Made You Look; The Man Who Saws Us in Half; Luuletaja; Frozen Light; The Lost Rhetoric of Memory; The Sudden Mind; Measuring the Moon; In a Dream of Standing in the Wings of a Reality TV Show; Out; In My Town: West Virginia; Epiphany in a Spring Field; Visible Songs of Appalachia; Séance; Washing Seven Plates; Night Without Dream, Morning Without Memory; Gravitas; Sleeping Among Horses; Between; The Dead; Summer Solstice Prayer, 2008; Lone Dogs; Laughter Fossils.
- Camel in the Rainforest, Giraffe in the RockiesThe Way the World Goes On; Every Day of the Dead; Crossing; Hymn to Her; Dream of Two Fields in Evening Rain; Winter Cellar; Your Christmas Present; In a Park, a Crow in Spring Rain; Wind on the River; Minimum; Young Scientist Learning Soft; In Mythic Times; The Lion That Finds You Asleep in His Dream.