Idaho's Poetry: A Centennial Anthology [Paperback]

Ronald E. McFarland (Author), William Studebaker (Author)

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Beforehand by Duane Ackerson
Weathering by Duane Ackerson
Carpal Bones by Margaret Aho
Pause At Forty by Margaret Aho
Presence by Douglas Airmet
Defintions by Forrest Anderson
Springboard As A Waterfront Cafe by Forrest Anderson
Vol Fantasque by Forrest Anderson
In Another Country; For Nancy Stringfellow by Richard Ardinger
One Place For Another by Richard Ardinger
Planting Day by Richard Ardinger
Report From More's Creek by Richard Ardinger
Advice To Beaux by Arion [pseud.]
Spring Spell by Diana Armstrong
False Dusk by Kathleen Armstrong
The Hunter by Kathleen Armstrong
Mountain Vigil by James Ater
The Wild Forget-me-nots Of Owyhee by G. E. B.
Chase Lake by Lea Baechler
Taking A Life by Lea Baechler
Infestation by Kim Barnes
Women At The Wash Stand by Kim Barnes
Rural Etching by Keith Barrette
The Fairy Wife by Carol Ryrie Brink
Foggy Day At The Beach by Carol Ryrie Brink
Thoughts On Eating An Apple by Carol Ryrie Brink
The Growth Of Mathematics by James Brock
The Recognition Of Beasts by James Brock
Joe Weaver Of Owyhee by E. A. Brubacher
Boom Town by Ruth Bull
The Red Dress by Ruth Bull
Eva Kelly by Donald Burnie
Harry Gale by Donald Burnie
Wild Moll by Donald Burnie
Good Morning by Kevin Bushman
Idaho Christmas by Kevin Bushman
Credence by Dana Cassadore
The Tribal Artist by Dana Cassadore
On Solitude by Nadine Chapman
The Riverpig by Paul Croy
Indian Poker by Pete Cruz
The Rustic Miner by Darby [pseud.]
The Little Mud by Christine Olson Davis
Back Street Autumn by Jean Chalmers Donaldson
Hollyhocks by Jean Chalmers Donaldson
Velvet Foil by Jean Chalmers Donaldson
Young Farm Wife by Jean Chalmers Donaldson
Chronicle by Edward Dorn
Home On The Range, February, 1962 by Edward Dorn
The Story Teller by Zeoma Dvorak
Springtime In Idaho by Clarence E. Eddy
American Hero by Bruce Embree
April 25 by Bruce Embree
Rain In Harvest by Amy Woodward Fisher
Dick Rowe by Vardis Fisher
Hank Radder by Vardis Fisher
Joe Hunter by Vardis Fisher
Among Old Dancers by Jack Fleming
Upon Hearing .. Death Of A Boyhood Friend, Mooseheart, Il. by Jack Fleming
Reflections by Carolyn S. Foote
Widow by Carolyn S. Foote
Cabin Note by Tina Foriyes
Jade Ring, Sels. by Tina Foriyes
Snowman In Summer by Tina Foriyes
When In Drought by Tina Foriyes
I Like Living Alone by Jane Fritz
Call Of The Flute by Phillip William George
Morning Beads by Phillip William George
Name Giveaway by Phillip William George
Old Man, The Sweat Lodge by Phillip William George
Wall-flower by Edna Gillespie
Lava I by Janne Goldbeck
Lava Ii by Janne Goldbeck
Winter Song by Janne Goldbeck
Is The Garden Worth It? by Carolyn Gravelle
Ghost Horses by Florence Greathouse
Jackal In Red Stone by Florence Greathouse
As I Wear A Gown by Annie Pike Greenwood
Definition Of Love by Annie Pike Greenwood
The Farmer's Wife And Her Poem by Annie Pike Greenwood
Up Goes Idaho by Grey Eagle [pseud.]
Squeeze Play by Gerald Grimmett
Clearing Sagebrush by Eugene Grindel
Maybe The Sky by Charles (chuck) Guilford
Love Song In .20 Gauge by Dewey Haeder
A Spider Web In A Rose Garden by Sudie Stuart Hager
Backyard Swing by Janet Campbell Hale
Desmet, Idaho, March 1969 by Janet Campbell Hale
Montana by Kenneth O. Hanson
Left by Sharon T. Hays
Skipping Rope In Hayden Lake, Idaho by Sharon T. Hays
Success by Sharon T. Hays
Pam by Borg Hendrickson
Autumn In Inchelium by James R. Hepworth
Silence As A Method Of Birth Control by James R. Hepworth
Sioux Center, Iowa by Jim Heynen
Traveling Through Idaho On Opening Day by Jim Heynen
Knighthood In Grangeville by Bonnie Cochran Hirsch
Me And Mason Williams, Down The Garden Path by Bonnie Cochran Hirsch
Idaho by Howard Horowitz
Bear Lake by Sarah Huckvale
Settlement by Ed Hughes
A Letter by Donnell Walker Hunter
Louise by Donnell Walker Hunter
Otto by Donnell Walker Hunter
Tripwire by Randy Huntsberry
Insomnia by Jim Irons
Moose by Bill Johnson
Wildrose Cemetery by Bill Johnson
Farewell To Idaho by H. F. Johnson
The Israelite's Last Mule Ride by H. F. Johnson
Your Mother's Story by Robert Johnson
Matthew by Edna Caster Joll
The Plumcot Tree by Edna Caster Joll
Maidenhair by Daryl E. Jones
Un Bel Di by Daryl E. Jones
Egg And Ode by Grace Edgington Jordan
Rest In Peace by Grace Edgington Jordan
Lee Driving Through Colorado by Joan Juskie-nellis
American Falls by Greg Keeler
Island Leaving by Linda Kittell
Rhonda Labombard by Linda Kittell
Last Words by Rosemary Klein
A Chinaman's Chance; Shanghai, 1945 by Alex Kuo
The River by Alex Kuo
Hugh's Wife (cedar City, Utah) by Paul Le Sage
A New Year View Of The World Inside And Out by Log-cabin [pseud.]
Cornucopia by Carol Jean Logue
House Of Wind; For Dick Hugo by Stephen Lyons
Women Out West by Stephen Lyons
Evening Above The Snake by Norman (1906-1985) Macleod
Ring Around The Syringas: 1920 by Norman (1906-1985) Macleod
Memoirs Of An Idaho Falls Carrot Snapper by Linda Mcandrew
The Farm by Tom Mcclanahan
Heartland by Tom Mcclanahan
Orgy by Ronald (ron) E. Mcfarland
Out Here by Ronald (ron) E. Mcfarland
A Perfect Day by Ronald (ron) E. Mcfarland
Town Marshall by Ronald (ron) E. Mcfarland
Mountain Interlude (a Woman Speaks) by Ruth Bernice Mead
Gold On Blue by Anne Merkley
The Big Boss by Janet Ellen Miller
Ascension by J. I. Mills
Idaho City by Alan Minskoff
Pounding Nails by Alan Minskoff
Hometown Bar by Rob Moore
Welcome Back by Rob Moore
Yellow Cars Are by Sheryl Noethe
Dream-thief by Joy Passanante
The Owyhee Miner's Lament by Pay Rock [pseud.]
Weatherwise by R. J. Petrillo
A Mountain Idyl by Naomi Mcdonald Phelps
Angle Of Repose by Timothy Pilgrim
Pre-dawn Vigil At Kootenai Medical Center by Timothy Pilgrim
Alpiner by Charles Potts
Moeurs Contemporaries by Ezra Pound
Another Story Sun Valley Never Hears by Scott Preston
River By Picasso, 1903 by Scott Preston
The Arts In Idaho by Steve Puglisi
Idaho by Diane Raptosh
Just West Of Now by Diane Raptosh
I Continue by Penelope Reedy
Idaho Potato Field by Edith M. Roberts
The Coast Of Idaho by Vern Rutsala
Gravel, Roads, Fathers, Idaho, Hobos, Memory by Vern Rutsala
Poor Man by Scottish Chief [pseud.]
Harry Orchard by Richard Shelton
On Lake Pend Oreille by Richard Shelton
After The Death Of The Magician by Ona Siporin
Boise: The Woman Who Loved Birds by Ona Siporin
Lewiston by Bill Siverly
Gospel Hump by Gino Sky
Country Store by Bess Foster Smith
Smohalla Speaks by Smohalla
Our Cabin On The Bar by Karen Snow [pseud.]
An Eye To The Cold by John F. Sollers
Perpetua by John F. Sollers
Rosie's Ghost by John F. Sollers
Juliaetta Coffee Blues by Kim R. Stafford
Pocatello Town by Kim R. Stafford
Villanelle For The Spiders by Kim R. Stafford
Coyote by William Edgar Stafford
Springs Near Hagerman by William Edgar Stafford
Jukebox Cave; On An Abandoned Air Force Base Near Wendhover by William Studebaker
Nowhere Near by William Studebaker
Sandpoint by William Studebaker
Where You Could Live Forever by William Studebaker
Birthday Metamorphoses by Ford Swetnam
One Winter by Ford Swetnam
Pioneer League, Butte V. Pocatello by Ford Swetnam
Existentialist by Paul E. Tracy
Lewis & Clark Sequence: Cataplasm by Tom Trusky
Lewis & Clark Sequence: Opulence by Tom Trusky
A Room In Idaho by Eberle Umbach
Theatre In The Heartland by Eberle Umbach
Aspen Song by Anonymous
A Bachelor's Growl by Anonymous
The Candidate by Anonymous
Country Girls by Anonymous
Coyote And The Rock by Anonymous
The Craters Of The Moon by Anonymous
The Deluge by Anonymous
Glyph: 1 by Anonymous
Glyph: 2 by Anonymous
Glyph: 3 by Anonymous
The Grass On The Mountain by Anonymous
Lake Coeur D'alene by Anonymous
The Little People by Anonymous
Neither Spirit Nor Bird by Anonymous
The Paiute Lament Of A Man For His Son by Anonymous
Rain Song by Anonymous
Swearbath Prayer by Anonymous
To M.v.e. by Anonymous
The Bear Hunter by Anonymous - Native American
Coyote And The Swallowing Monster by Anonymous - Native American
Death Chant by Anonymous - Native American
Medicine Song by Anonymous - Native American
Medicine-song Of The Elk by Anonymous - Native American
Medicine-song Of The Elk by Anonymous - Native American
Origin Of The Sweat House by Anonymous - Native American
The Rock Wren And The Rattlesnake by Anonymous - Native American
Three Songs Of Mad Coyote (wyakin): 1 by Anonymous - Native American
Three Songs Of Mad Coyote (wyakin): 2 by Anonymous - Native American
Three Songs Of Mad Coyote (wyakin): 3 by Anonymous - Native American
Wyakin Song From A Male Buffalo by Anonymous - Native American
To 'sally Cactus' by Vaquero [pseud.]
How To Live Two Days In Osburn, Idaho by George Andrew Venn
Where Scuffed Rocks Edge The Road by Lydia Vizcaya
A Place In Place Of Father by Norman Weinstein
Winnemucca, Nevada by Norman Weinstein
The 'bad Man' From The Range by George P. Wheeler
Idaho Retrospective by George P. Wheeler
The Changeling's Mother by Lynn Wikle
A Handmaiden Speaks by Lynn Wikle
The Journey; Snake River Country by Yvor Winters
Nocturne by Yvor Winters
The Foolhen (or Spruce Goose) by Charles David Wright
Shaving by Charles David Wright
There Comes A Wind by Charles David Wright
Christina by Fay Wright
A Window Provides The World by Fay Wright
The Drunkard's Path by Robert Wrigley
Fireflies by Robert Wrigley
Heart Attack by Robert Wrigley
The Sinking Of Clay City by Robert Wrigley
Entering The Water by Harald Wyndham
Graveshift In The Humping Yard by Harald Wyndham
Seed Store by Harald Wyndham
Swimming In Silence / Drowning In Light by Harald Wyndham
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 226 pages
• Publisher: Univ of Idaho Pr; First edition. edition (January 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0893011282
• ISBN-13: 978-0893011284
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars The State that has Grown More than Potatoes, February 13, 2004

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M. Swinney "Marc My Words" (Flower Mound, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Idaho's Poetry: A Centennial Anthology (Paperback)

So Dan Quayle had trouble spelling that tubular edible root, but does that mean the state that spurned the international recognition of the great table russet go unnoticed and relegated to obscurity...I think not. Idaho has poetry as well as potatoes. And good reading it does make.

Ronald McFarland and William Studebaker have made themselves some names among the Idaho literati set, but beyond those bounds and borders, I'm not sure how many folks have heard of the poesy-makers. Idaho has it's literary connections. Ernest Hemingway is buried here. Hemingway did some writing here. Allen Ginsberg has crossed the great state a time or two and has written about it. Ezra Pound, politics excepting, was a son of the state born in Hailey. What do you know, the state, though largely unknown, is on the literary map. "Idaho's Poetry, A Centennial Anthology," speaks to that fact. It is a rich and varied collection of some really good and in spots great poetry.

This book is arranged chronologically starting with the Native American poetry of the Nez Perce, Shoshone and Bannock, Coeur d'Alene, and Kutenai. You have to hand it to the editors of McFarland and Studebaker for the thoroughness of their project scope. And the words, rhymes, and language continue on from the Pioneer Poets of the 1860's on to the present contemporaries with each era well and equitably represented. Notable stand-outs for me and my taste in poetry are Margeret Aho's "Carpal Bones," Richard Ardinger's "Report from More's Creek," Alex Kuo's "A Chinaman's Change Shanghai, 1945," and certainly not to be overlooked is Ron McFarland's own, "Orgy," and Ford Swetnam's "One Winter," and "Another Winter."

Like the land and it's poetry, their natural edge serrated rock have had a definite effect on my own writing. Thank you McFarland and Studebaker for putting this fine book together if you should ever stumble across this review.

And dear reader I leave you with these fine words of Aho's straight from the pages of this good book, "What is unspoken, wordless, lives between the fingers and the forearm, in the pale throats of the wrists which swallow so much and are wise."

-- Ahh, beautiful land, beautiful poetry...MMW