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I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets.
Title:
I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets.
Author:
Sexton, Tom.
ISBN:
9781602231207
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (72 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Hurricane Station House -- Aurora Borealis -- Brown Bear -- On Our Anniversary -- Yellow Warblers -- The Wolves of Denali -- Baneberry -- I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets -- Winter Night -- Clearing After Snow Over Mountains and River -- Woodcut of a Crane -- River Otters -- Thinking of a Friend's Cold Words -- Snow -- Strawberries -- No Moon Tonight -- Lilac -- Grasses in the Marsh -- Yet Another Poem About the Moon -- Glacier -- Mountain Spinach -- Denali -- Thinking of a Friend -- August -- To Wang Wei -- An Empty Bowl -- Arctic Char -- Crossing a Marsh by Train -- Watching Winter Light from Chulitna Butte -- Morning Landscape, Early Spring -- Coming Down from the Mountains into Mist -- No Time for Metaphor -- Ephemeral -- Ermine -- Leaving Again -- Washington County, Maine -- By Passamaquoddy Bay -- Witch Hazel -- Starlings -- Late Afternoon -- Robert Frost in Winter -- Larch -- Blackberries -- Sedge Wren -- Winterberry Holly -- Tu Fu -- House Sparrows -- Decoy of a Snow Goose -- Pasque Flower -- Traveler's Moon -- Alder Thicket -- Equinox -- Su Tung P'o -- Bohemian Waxwings -- Liqueur -- A Painting of the Poet Meng Hao Jan -- For Frances Gramse, Age 3, on the Winter Solstice -- Winter Landscape: Fish Creek -- To Wang Wei After Readinga New Translation of His Poems.
Abstract:
This all-new collection by former Alaska poet laureate smoothly blends his life in Maine, his years in Alaska, and his love of Chinese poetry-which has been a key influence on his work-into a lyrical fantasy that will enchant lovers of verse. These tightly rhythmic, compact eight-line poems demonstrate a rare deftness with-and an even more uncommon ear for-language, revealing poetic form to be neither a puzzle nor an accomplishment in itself, but a compositional tool and a spur to creativity.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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