| Author |
Griffin, Shaun T. (Shaun Timothy), 1953- author.
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| Publication |
Reno ; Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2019]
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| Description |
xiv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Call # |
808.819 G |
| Summary |
"This is a book of essays about the American West, about poets and poetry, and about looking beyond our borders for reconciliation and lessons about how we might address similar issues at home."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Dressing for fire -- Snowalking -- Walking into the desert -- Letter from the Blackstone River : under fog with the porcupine caribou -- Minot, North Dakota : when the sky begins to unravel -- Walden Pond in the desert -- Because the land is so bare : the poetry of Joanne de Longchamps -- Adrian C. Louis and the fire water world -- The desert outside : thinking about Richard Shelton -- Most of what I believe was found in poetry's ancient hands -- My journey to Hayden Carruth : falling down to understand -- From sorrow's well : on Hayden Carruth's resolute poetics -- Before I knew her mind : a dream of Carolyn Kizer -- If I had wheels or love -- From the ash of human feeling : teaching poetry behind the fence -- Looking for William Stafford on the yard -- The magnetic pull in a poem -- Sing, before the long silence returns -- What border to cross? -- A poet returns to Ireland -- In the library of chile pickers, fishermen, and Vicente's stone -- Below swifts in the Albayzón -- Fourteen days in South Africa ; healing and contradiction at Land's End -- Letter from Zimbabwe -- Fadhil in the new world : how humor saved an Iraqi poet -- Trying to cross the island between us -- Without a way home. |
| Subject |
Griffin, Shaun T. (Shaun Timothy), 1953- -- Friends and associates.
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Griffin, Shaun T. (Shaun Timothy), 1953- (OCoLC)fst01966055 |
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Poetry of places.
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Poets -- Biography.
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Poetry in prisons.
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Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
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Poetry in prisons. (OCoLC)fst01748419
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Poetry of places. (OCoLC)fst01067759
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Poets. (OCoLC)fst01067778
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| Genre |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Addl. Author |
García Santillanes, Ismael, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9781948908122 paperback alkaline paper |
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1948908123 paperback alkaline paper |
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