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For the sake of the light [electronic resource] : new and selected poems / Tom Sexton.
ISBN:
9781602231153
Title:
For the sake of the light [electronic resource] : new and selected poems / Tom Sexton.
Author:
Sexton, Tom, 1940-
Personal Author:
Sexton, Tom, 1940-
Publication Information:
Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, ©2009.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 192 pages).
Series:
University of Alaska Press - Alaska Writer Laureate
Contents:
New Poems; Eiders; Passamaquoddy Bay; Lubec, Maine; Night-Herons; At East Machias; In Waldo County, Maine; Crossing the Blueberry Barrens; A Harvard Millerite Ascends; Uncle Eli Glover Moving; The Banishment of Saint Columba; Trawl; Arnprior, Ontario; On the Empire Builder Heading West; Burial Ground; The Emperor; Broad Pass, September; Cow Parsnip; Mountain Bluebirds; Beluga Point; Cottonwood Seed; Porcupine; At the Turning of the Season; That Other World; Summer Waterfall; Butterfly Lake; Juncos; Snow Buntings; Steller's Jay; Steller's Sea Cow, 1742-1768.

Ursus Maritimus, the Polar BearDriving Toward Nenana; Cottonwood; Mountain Lake; Walking the Marsh; Mew Gulls; Snowy Owl; Looking to the West; Brown Creeper; A Necessary Poem; A Snowy Morning in May; The Man Who Learned Dena'ina; Clear and Cold; Two Ravens in a Tree; Tugs; Under Polaris; Dawson City, Yukon Territory; Signs of Spring; Wild Swans; Saint Lucia's Day; The Kite Flyers; Redpolls; The Iris Hunters; From: Terra Incognita (1974); Terra Incognita; Uncle Paul; Astoria; At Daybreak; December; From: Late August on the Kenai River (1991); Poolshark; Anchorage; Homer; Trapper Creek.

The Wedding of Cecelia DemidorfCompass Rose; Nikolaevsk; Saint Marys; On Reading Wang Wei; Late August on the Kenai River; Open Season; Two Poems for the Solstice; Harvest; From: A Bend Toward Asia (1993); Kodiak; Yakutat; El Dorado; Chitina; Gulkana Berry Pickers; The Princess Line; Chenega; Cygnus; -60; De Rerum Natura: or Of Nature's Things; In the Snow; Ritual; Waiting for Spring; Aleutians; Iris; Extending the Range; Springs; After the August Rains; Wolves; Pass Creek; Hurricane; Walking to the Beaver Pond with My Wife; On the Russian River; The Marsh in Spring; Sweet Spring Grasses.

Crows on Bare BranchesWind; Muskeg; From: A Blossom of Snow (1995); Naming; Winter Landscape; Burnet; Lin He-Jing; Towns; Lament; King Island; Beluga; Pleiades; Transformations; Marsh Violets; Crows; Homage to Neidecker; Fiddlehead; From: Leaving for a Year (1998); Thinking of Tu Fu on a Summer Evening; Leaving for a Year; Crossing the Divide; At Feng-Hsiang; Poem Begun on Mother's Day; Portage La Prairie; Melting Snow; From: Autumn in the Alaska Range (2000); On the Death of a Homeless Man; Rowing Toward the Spirit World; For Art and Anna on Their Wedding Day; Spirit Houses at Tazlina.

The Alaska RangeThe Cross Fox; Rowan Tree; A Blessing; Landscape; A Letter to Tu Fu; Touch-Me-Not; Solstice; In Glacial Light; The Bear that Visits Our Cabin; Willow Ptarmigan; Lynx; Blue Flag; Wilson's Warblers; The Mountains in Winter; Winter Solstice; The Gift of Snow; Winter Finch; Denali; Poem About the Moon; Rising from the Dark; April; Poem Written Near Hurricane; Autumn in the Alaska Range; Numen; Paradise Valley; Setosa; Epitaph; For the Sake of the Light; From: World Brimming Over (2003); By an Abandoned Railroad Line; In the Kitchen; Butcher Bird; American Dippers; Pastoral.
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Geographic Term:
Alaska -- Poetry.
Format:
Electronic Resources
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Publication Date:
2009
Publication Information:
Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, ©2009.