Cow'sleap: A Nightbook: Poems, 1959-1997 [Paperback]

Thomas Smith (Author), Tom Smith (Author)

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Animal
Asylum Villanelle
August
Caller
Come Away
A Crossroad
Dead Tree
Deja Vu
A Doomsday Poem
A Dream Of Anteaters
A Dream Of Count Dracula
A Dream Of Feasts
A Dream Of My Hat
A Dream Of Noses
A Dream Of Roots
A Dream Of The Egg
A Dream Of The Family
A Dream Of The Refrain
A Dream Of Trains
A Dream Of Windows
A Dream Of Zinnias
Family Album
Fishermen
Flowers In Sunlight
Girl On A Ledge
Journeys Of The Dead
The Last Child
Masks
Mr. & Mrs. Discobbolos
Orpheus Icons
Prayer
A Proper Burial
Reaching The Moon
The Sillies
Taking The Sun
To Madeline Usher
Turtle
Wake
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Fithian Press (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564742814
• ISBN-13: 978-1564742810
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Quiet, moving, image conjuring poetry., June 6, 2000

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This review is from: Cow'sleap: A Nightbook: Poems, 1959-1997 (Paperback)

Tom Smith's quiet, moving, image conjuring poetry drifts through the mind like the night dreams and day memories he draws from. From Cow'Sleap: A Nightbook emerges a body of work that documents a unique, compelling, and reflective voice whose lyric verse will activate the minds and emotions of all those who read them. Family Album: Summer: He leers above his wine./Friends grin. An arrow on the wall/behind him points.//Thanksgiving: He's the father/in a high-back rocket. Woman,/boys, and his bare feet.//Christmas: His mother,/the toy drum on her knees,/one stick lifted.//Christmas: His boys/naked as morning/under feather bonnets.//Christmas: His father/stranded on the icy drive/with presents.//August: Under the pine/in his rock garden/the woman scowls at the sun.