by Mark Vinz
contributions by Thom Tammaro
University of Minnesota Press, 1993
Paper: 978-0-8166-2303-7
Library of Congress Classification PS563.I54 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.80977
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Climates
- “Three Kinds of Pleasures”
- “One Hundred Percent Chance of Snow, Accumulating Six to Eight Inches by Morning”
- “Eighty-four Days without Rain”
- “Fishing with My Two Boys at a Spring-fed Pond in Kansas”
- “Too Long Away from Small Things”
- “Finnish Women in the Summer Kitchen”
- “Fishing with My Daughter in Miller's Meadow”
- “The Undistinguished Poet” (from Staggerford)
- The Presence of the Past
- “Elwood Collins: Summer of 1932”
- “Who Made Such Good Pies”
- “Sacrifice of a Gunnysack of Cats”
- “Midwest Sex Education—1965”
- “Visiting the Graves—February' ”
- “Free” (from Green Earth)
- “The Place of Your Dream”
- Town and Country
- “In Front of a Small Town Radio Station”
- “Elsie's Cafe in Aurelia Iowa”
- “The Water Tower Climbers”
- “Regent, North Dakota: Two Poems”
- “Poet in Residence at a Country School”
- “The Tender Organizations”
- “The Other Houses in Eldon, Iowa”
- “Living off the Land in Minnesota”
- Gains and Losses
- “Ballade of the Dusty Old Dust”
- “The Old Farm Woman Examines Her Thoughts”
- “Thoughts Stolen from Geese”
- “Picking Wildflowers in the Sandhills”
- “A Simple Matter of Hunger”
- “The View from a Monastery”
- “July 1947: Many Point Scout Camp”