A common name for everything : poems /
The poems in A Common Name for Everything build idiosyncratic worlds around the themes of nature, home, parenting and naming, worlds that are at once poignant and absurd, a professional namer of lakes explains his standards, the rural gods are given names, a study of sheep results in loneliness. Ste...
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Brattleboro, Vermont :
Green Writers Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- I. Have you been to the place? Night travel
- Have you been to the place?
- A study
- Aurora borealis
- My mother names her inner state
- The mammoth
- No heron
- Overwintered
- Fruiting bodies
- Love song in a small place
- II. Little here, little now. A guidebook with common phrases
- Apples
- One problem with maps
- Garlic
- What we tell children about animals
- The rural pantheon
- Nearer, my bog, to thee
- Namer of lakes
- Declared nuisances
- The place and the whale
- From above a lambing
- III. Earth-things. Some conditions
- Leaving pangaea
- To consider the tree crab
- Views from ruminant creatures
- My favorite human smile
- We are taking the trees
- A child tries to extinguish the sun
- The subtle animal
- The mountain
- The prayers of sheep
- IV. Beginnings. The propagule
- Regeneration (acornal, coralic, human)
- An unfunded study of milking and the moon
- Birth story
- An unfunded study of the afterbirth
- Arrival at the river Jordan
- The landing
- Renovation
- A small and unsuccessful reckoning
- The afterlion
- The next season.