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Merciful days : poems /

"Merciful Days is the fourth collection of poems by East Tennessee poet Jesse Graves, recipient of the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachia from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In a language that is both plainspoken and lyrical, Graves examines the connections that hold people...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Graves, Jesse, 1973- (Author)
Corporate Author: Mercer University Press
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • The Kingdom of the Dead
  • The Edges of Cornfields at Dusk
  • Distant Star
  • Challenger
  • Nameless River
  • Sage Grass Brushing Against My Shins
  • Merciful Days
  • Old Man Wandering the Roads
  • Come Running
  • Raft
  • Katie Myers
  • Holocene
  • Mossy Springs
  • History
  • Barn Swallows
  • At the Window
  • Lisa in the Forest
  • Jewel
  • Wind Work
  • October Woods
  • Hawks
  • East Running Spring
  • Upper Chambers
  • Under Silent Owls Watching from the Pines
  • Except in Memory
  • Certain Backroads
  • Gingham
  • Rocks
  • Dream of the Road that Leads My Mother Back to a Little Brown House in the Valley of Her Birth
  • The Call of Strange Birds
  • The Log Chain
  • Tending
  • Lens
  • Chipping Arrowheads
  • Fawn in Sapsucker Woods
  • Pilot
  • Nothing Familiar
  • Honeycutt Grocery
  • Siren
  • Particle
  • After the Reunion
  • The Hollow Trunk
  • Elegy for an Afternoon
  • Paper Treasures
  • Self-Portrait
  • Beneath the Birch Trees
  • Voice
  • Sojourner
  • The Moon and the North Star
  • A Blue Tractor Passing.