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Talking into the ear of a donkey: poems
Talking into the ear of a donkey: poems
Author
Bly, Robert
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Publication Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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From the Book - 1st ed.
Acknowledgments
1:
Ravens hiding in a shoe
Courting forgetfulness
Keeping our small boat afloat
Paying attention to the melody
Longing for the acrobat
Nirmala's music
Frogs after dark
Sympathies of the long married
Blind old man
Father and son
2:
Rains
Roof nail
Day in late June
Dealing with parents
Sense of getting older
Old fishing lines
Walking out in the morning
Poetry reading in Maryland
Lost trapper
Starting a poem
I have daughters and I have sons
Mourning dove's call
Taking into the ear of a donkey
Wanting sumptuous heavens
3:
Family thing
Water tank
Box of chocolates
Keeping quiet
Day the dock comes in
Morning pajamas
That problem in the family
4:
Heard whispers
Slim fir seeds
Big-nostrilled moose
Tristan and Isolde
Turkish pears in August
Thoreau as a lover
In a time of losses
So much time
Grackles
Turtle's eggs
For the old Gnostics
Pheasant chick's
Orion and the farmstead
Silent in the moonlight
Ramage for the mountain
What is sorrow for?
Lovers in the river
Camels
Limits
5:
Sunday afternoon
Teapot
Ready to sleep
Housefly
My father at forty
My mother
It's morning again
Something to do for Aunt Clara
Man at the door
Hermit
Poetry reading at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas
6:
Uncertainty
Threshers
Longing
What did we see today?
Long-legged birds
Hearing music at dawn
Hawk in his nest
My mournful room
About my father
Smoke-stained fingers
What the old poets failed to say.
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American poetry
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9780393080223
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