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Ask me: 100 essential poems
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Publication Date
[2014]
Language
English
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From the Book
Preface / by Kim Stafford
A story that could be true
Fifteen
Vocation
Ask me
The way it is
A message from the wanderer
Traveling through the dark
Mein Kampf
You reading this, be ready
Security
Thinking for Berky
Why I am happy
A ritual to read to each other
Serving with Gideon
Easter morning
Assurance
Our story
The little ways that encourage good fortune
A gesture toward an unfound Renaissance
Saint Matthew and all
A dedication
Learning
Objector
At the un-national monument along the Canadian border
For the unknown enemy
At the bomb testing site
These mornings
Distractions
Watching the jet planes dive
Poetry
The star in the hills
Peace walk
Explaining the big one
Entering history
"Shall we have that singing
"
In the night desert
The concealment : Ishi, the last wild Indian
Bess
American Gothic
Report to Crazy Horse
For my young friends who are afraid
Listening
Clash
Our kind
Aunt Mabel
At the grave of my brother : bomber pilot
A catechism
Circle of breath
A memorial : son Bret
A family turn
Ruby was her name
With Kit, age 7, at the beach
Passing remark
Once in the 40s
One home
Prairie town
Ceremony
The farm on the Great Plains
One evening
In the Oregon country
At the Klamath berry festival
Looking for gold
An Oregon message
Earth dweller
Spirit of place : great blue heron
The fish counter at Bonneville
Witness
Bi-focal
Across Kansas
Malheur before dawn
Starting with little things
Mr. Conscience
The well rising
Climbing along the river
Roll call
Things I learned last week
Ode to garlic
Reading with little sister : a recollection
Just thinking
Any morning
First grade
Freedom
When I met my muse
You and art
The animal that drank up sound
Keeping a journal
Indian caves in the dry country
Burning a book
Growing up
A farewell, age ten
Artist, come home
An archival print
Why I am a poet
Run before dawn
The last class
Looking across the river
Father and son
Choosing a dog
"Are you Mr. William Stafford?"
Smoke.
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Contributors
Stafford, Kim Robert editor
ISBN
9781555976644
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