From Library Journal
Wagoner's poetic world teems with salmon, hawks, field mice, frogs, and rattlesnakes in their richly described ambiences of desert arroyo, swamp marsh, seacoast, and orchardample evidence that Wagoner is one of our finest nature poets. But one reads (and re-reads) these lovely poems for the pleasures of their craftsmanship: driftwood like "bones of the gods"; the "closing eyelid" of the moon, rain falling in "star points." Every line is musical, begging to be read aloud. Wagoner would wake us up gently, "one eye, one branch, one thought, one stretch at a time." This work includes a generous selection of his best work since Collected Poems (1976), plus 30 previously uncollected poems. Accessible, joyous poetry that belongs in every collection . Daniel L. Guillory, English Dept., Millikin Univ., Decatur, Ill.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
An Address To Weyerhaeuser, The Tree-growing Company
After Reading Too Many Poems, I Watch A Robin Taking A Bath
After The High-school Graduation, 1944
After The Speech To The Librarians
Algae
Applying For A Loan With The Help Of The Dictionary Of Occup. Titles
The Astronomer's Apprentice
At Peace
At Sea
At The Point Of No Return ...
The Author Of American Ornithology Sketches A Bird, Now Extinct
The Author Says Goodbye To His Hero
Backtracking %fifty Miles Past Bakersfield
Bears
Being Herded Past The Prison's Honor Farm
The Best Slow Dancer
Bittern
Book Sale - Five Cents Each
Boy Jesus
Breath Test
By Starlight
The Calm
Canticle For Xmas Eve
Catching The Big One At Lone Lake
Caterpillar Song
Chorus
Coming Home Late With The Bad Young Man
Crossing A River
The Death Of A Cranefly
The Death Of The Moon
Downstream
Driftwood
Elegy For My Mother
Elegy While Pruning Roses
Eulogy For Richard Hugo (1923-82)
The Excursion Of The Speech And Hearing Class
Falling Asleep In A Garden
Feeding
Finding The Right Direction
First Light
Five Dawn Skies In November
For A Third Anniversary
For A Woman Who Doubted The Power Of Love
Games
The Garden Of Earthly Delights ...
The Gardener's Dream
Getting Away
Getting There
Going To Sea
Golden Retriever
A Guide To The Field
Her Dream ...
His Dream
The Horsemen
In A Garden At The End Of Winter
In Distress
In Enemy Territory
In Love
In The Booking Room
In The Dream House
Into The Nameless Places
Jeremiad
The Junior High School Band Concert
Kingfisher
Lament For The Non-swimmers
Landfall
Lifesaving
Living Off The Land
Looking For Nellie Washington
Looking For Water
Looking Into A Pond
Loons Mating
Love Song After A Nightmare
Lying Awake In A Desert
Making A Fire In The Rain
Making Camp
Marsh Hawk
Meditation On The Union Bay Garbage Fill
Medusa's Lover
Mockingbird
Moth Song
My Father In The Basement
My Father's Football Game
My Father's Garden
My Father's Ghost
My Father's Wall
My Fire
My Pets
My Physics Teacher
The Naval Trainees Learn How To Jump Overboard
Neighbors
Nuthatch
Ode To The Muse On Behalf Of A Young Poet
Ode To Twelve Yards Of Unscreened Fill Dirt
On Motel Walls
The Orchard Of The Dreaming Pigs
Our Blindness
Our Father
Our Model
Pandora's Dream
Part Song
Peacock Display
Photographing A Rattlesnake
The Play
Poem About Breath
Posing With A Trophy
Prince Charming
Reading The Landscape
Reading The Sky
A Remarkable Exhibition
Replanting A Garden
The Resting Place
Return To The River
Return To The Swamp
Securing A House
Seeds
Seeing The Wind
Seeing Things
The Shape
Sharp-shin
Sitting By A Swamp
Sleeping Beauty
Snowflakes
The Song
Songs My Mother Taught Me
The Source ...
Spider Song
Standing In The Middle ...
Staying Alive In A Clear-cut Forest
Staying Found
Stiltwalker
Stump Speech
Taking Our Bearings
That Moment
Their Bodies
Their Fire Was Small. They Fed It Only Enough
Their Shelter
There
Thoreau And The Snapping Turtle
Three Ways Of A River
To A Farmer Who Hung Five Hawks On His Barbed Wire
To A Panhandler, Who, For A Quarter, Said God Bless You.
To The Last Man
The Track Scale Weigher
The Truant Officer's Helper
Trying To Sing In The Rain
Turning Back And Starting Over
Under The Sign Of Moth
Victory
Wading In A Marsh
Waking Up In A Garden
Walking ...
Walking In Broken Country
Washing A Young Rhinoceros
Watching The Harbor Seals
The Water Lily
Waterfall
Whisper Song
Winter Wren
A Woman Feeding Gulls
A Woman Standing In The Surf
Your Fortune: A Cold Reading
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
After Reading Too Many Poems, I Watch A Robin Taking A Bath
After The High-school Graduation, 1944
After The Speech To The Librarians
Algae
Applying For A Loan With The Help Of The Dictionary Of Occup. Titles
The Astronomer's Apprentice
At Peace
At Sea
At The Point Of No Return ...
The Author Of American Ornithology Sketches A Bird, Now Extinct
The Author Says Goodbye To His Hero
Backtracking %fifty Miles Past Bakersfield
Bears
Being Herded Past The Prison's Honor Farm
The Best Slow Dancer
Bittern
Book Sale - Five Cents Each
Boy Jesus
Breath Test
By Starlight
The Calm
Canticle For Xmas Eve
Catching The Big One At Lone Lake
Caterpillar Song
Chorus
Coming Home Late With The Bad Young Man
Crossing A River
The Death Of A Cranefly
The Death Of The Moon
Downstream
Driftwood
Elegy For My Mother
Elegy While Pruning Roses
Eulogy For Richard Hugo (1923-82)
The Excursion Of The Speech And Hearing Class
Falling Asleep In A Garden
Feeding
Finding The Right Direction
First Light
Five Dawn Skies In November
For A Third Anniversary
For A Woman Who Doubted The Power Of Love
Games
The Garden Of Earthly Delights ...
The Gardener's Dream
Getting Away
Getting There
Going To Sea
Golden Retriever
A Guide To The Field
Her Dream ...
His Dream
The Horsemen
In A Garden At The End Of Winter
In Distress
In Enemy Territory
In Love
In The Booking Room
In The Dream House
Into The Nameless Places
Jeremiad
The Junior High School Band Concert
Kingfisher
Lament For The Non-swimmers
Landfall
Lifesaving
Living Off The Land
Looking For Nellie Washington
Looking For Water
Looking Into A Pond
Loons Mating
Love Song After A Nightmare
Lying Awake In A Desert
Making A Fire In The Rain
Making Camp
Marsh Hawk
Meditation On The Union Bay Garbage Fill
Medusa's Lover
Mockingbird
Moth Song
My Father In The Basement
My Father's Football Game
My Father's Garden
My Father's Ghost
My Father's Wall
My Fire
My Pets
My Physics Teacher
The Naval Trainees Learn How To Jump Overboard
Neighbors
Nuthatch
Ode To The Muse On Behalf Of A Young Poet
Ode To Twelve Yards Of Unscreened Fill Dirt
On Motel Walls
The Orchard Of The Dreaming Pigs
Our Blindness
Our Father
Our Model
Pandora's Dream
Part Song
Peacock Display
Photographing A Rattlesnake
The Play
Poem About Breath
Posing With A Trophy
Prince Charming
Reading The Landscape
Reading The Sky
A Remarkable Exhibition
Replanting A Garden
The Resting Place
Return To The River
Return To The Swamp
Securing A House
Seeds
Seeing The Wind
Seeing Things
The Shape
Sharp-shin
Sitting By A Swamp
Sleeping Beauty
Snowflakes
The Song
Songs My Mother Taught Me
The Source ...
Spider Song
Standing In The Middle ...
Staying Alive In A Clear-cut Forest
Staying Found
Stiltwalker
Stump Speech
Taking Our Bearings
That Moment
Their Bodies
Their Fire Was Small. They Fed It Only Enough
Their Shelter
There
Thoreau And The Snapping Turtle
Three Ways Of A River
To A Farmer Who Hung Five Hawks On His Barbed Wire
To A Panhandler, Who, For A Quarter, Said God Bless You.
To The Last Man
The Track Scale Weigher
The Truant Officer's Helper
Trying To Sing In The Rain
Turning Back And Starting Over
Under The Sign Of Moth
Victory
Wading In A Marsh
Waking Up In A Garden
Walking ...
Walking In Broken Country
Washing A Young Rhinoceros
Watching The Harbor Seals
The Water Lily
Waterfall
Whisper Song
Winter Wren
A Woman Feeding Gulls
A Woman Standing In The Surf
Your Fortune: A Cold Reading
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
