Long Journey,9780870710988

Long Journey

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ISBN13: 9780870710988
ISBN10: 0870710982
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-09-30
Publisher(s): Oregon State Univ Pr
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Summary

Long Journey showcases work by over eighty of the Pacific Northwest's leading poets. Of the nearly two hundred poems collected in this remarkable anthology--the first of its kind for the Northwest--most are new and previously unpublished, providing readers with a fresh look at the state of contemporary poetry in the region. Featuring poets from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana.

Table of Contents

Foreword xv
Jan Lee Ande 3(2)
Corners of the Mouth
A Remedy, Withheld
Ginger Andrews 5(1)
Where We Messed Up
Judith Barrington 6(2)
Imaginary Islands
Souls Under Water
John Barton 8(4)
The Piano Warhol
Bruce Beasley 12(5)
Idaho Compline
Self-Portrait in Ink
Marvin Bell 17(2)
People Walking in Fog
"Why Do You Stay Up So Late?"
James Bertolino 19(1)
Grown Men
Linda Bierds 20(9)
Lautrec
Memento of the Hours
Shawl: Dorothy Wordsworth at Eighty
The Three Trees
Van Leeuwenhoek, 1675
Anne Caston 29(4)
House of Gathering
Lessons from the Natural World
Departures: Last Flight from Fairbanks
Kevin Craft 33(6)
Homebody
Janus-Igenuous
To Err
Incense
Lorna Crozier 39(6)
Ice-Fog
Shadow
Melanoma
Walking into the Future
The Night of My Conception 1
Olena Kalytiak Davis 45(5)
Show Up
(And More)
Francesca Can Too Stop Thinking About Sex, Reflect upon her Position in Poetry, Write a Real Sonnet
Madeline DeFrees 50(2)
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes"
Alice Derry 52(3)
Precarious
Candice Favilla 55(6)
Do Not Forget My Name
Seedtime
Capitulations
Tess Gallagher 61(5)
Bull's-Eye
Choices
Not a Sparrow
Weather Report
Gary Gildner 66(4)
Cleaning a Rainbow
Happiness Jazz
The Gig
Michele Glazer 70(3)
Sonnet
Historic House, Astoria
Map
Patricia Goedicke 73(6)
At the Edges of Everything Crackling
Six Short Ones
The Question on the Floor
James Grabill 79(1)
When Kali Dances the Earth Around
Neile Graham 80(4)
The Walk She Takes
Graves and Churchyards Cairns and Cairns
Catherine Greenwood 84(2)
Two Blue Elephants
John Haines 86(6)
Poem for the End of the Century
The Legend
For the Homestead Friends
Kathleen Halme III 92(6)
Comb
Drift and Pulse
What Self
Sam Hamill 98(2)
Lessons from Thieves
The New York Poem
Jerry Harp 100(2)
A Day Like This
The Creature Quotidian
Jana Harris 102(6)
Cutting Her Out from the Flock
About These Trumpeters That Line My Walls
Garrett Hongo 108(3)
On the Origin of Blind-Boy Lilikoi
Christopher Howell 111(4)
Meaning
First Touch
The New Orpheus
Henry Hughes 115(3)
Steelhead Almost
Guarding the Dump
Together in the Ice-storm
Lawson Fusao Inada 118(4)
from The Winter of Bridges
Laura Jensen 122(6)
Bird That Fell to the Ground
Four Summer Outfits
Flags January 1999
Robins in the Dark
Jonathan Johnson 128(4)
Three Cafés
Surplus
Arlitia Jones 132(2)
A Winter Fairytale
Eve Joseph 134(2)
Old Age
Avalanche
Richard Kenney 136(5)
Surrealism
Rear View
Pathetic Fallacy
Shall I Compare Thee to Appearances?
Turbulence
Michael Kenyon 141(2)
Feast
Joanna Klink 143(6)
What (War 2003-)
Open Land
Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy
Patrick Lane 149(7)
The War Howl
Dorianne Laux 156(5)
The Light Next Door
Can a Fire Burn Forever?
Easter, 1999
Ursula K. Le Guin 161(2)
A Measure of Desolation: February 2005
Watching a Fractal Set
Tod Marshall 163(2)
Describe Book Blurbs to Nationalism
Describe Wildflowers to Ethics
Linda McCarriston 165(2)
God the Synecdoche in His Holy Land
Public Poem in the First Person
Frances McCue 167(2)
The Orphan's Consolation
Robert McDowell 169(1)
Let's Say What's Always Left Unsaid
1936. Hiroko's Passage
Colleen J. McElroy 170(2)
Ballad for the Blue Moon Tavern
Heather McHugh 172(6)
Fourth of July, B.C.
Impolitic
Sampling
Back to B.C.
Don McKay 178(4)
Song of the Saxifrage to the Rock
"Stress, Shear, and Strain Theories of Failure"
Specific Gravities: #76 (Marble)
Astonished
George McWhirter 182(4)
Conviction
On Sending Out Our Kids Again
Joseph Millar 186(5)
Girlfriends
Junkyard
Elders
Hansel and Gretel's Father Explains
Susan Musgrave 191(6)
Origami Dove
The Room Where They Found You
Out of Time
P.K. Page 197(4)
from Hand Luggage—A Memoir in Verse
Ah, by the Golden Lilies
Suzanne Paoloa 201(3)
The Second Letter of St. Paul on the Human Genome Project
from Patient 6
Greg Pape 204(3)
Four Swans
Miranda Pearson 207(5)
The Empress
Peter Pereira 212(2)
Anagrammer
The Devil's Dictionary of Medical Terms
Lucia Perillo 214(3)
For the First Crow with West Nile Virus to Arrive in Our State
Viagra
Paulann Petersen 217(1)
Voluptuaries
Steven Price 218(2)
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Upon the Deliberation of Their Domestic Policy
Jarold Ramsay 220(1)
Penmanship
Carlos Reyes 221(1)
Everything Is a Metaphor
Katrina Roberts 222(2)
Skin
Hunger
Stan Sanvel Rubin 224(2)
Door
Man on Deck
Vern Rutsala 226(4)
Travelling One Way
Looking for Work
Jay Ruzesky 230(1)
New God
Ralph Salisbury 231(2)
Medicine-Meeting, Hoopa, 1994
We Knew Them
Maxine Scates 233(3)
Bucket Vice
Peter Sears 236(1)
High in the Bamboo
Tom Sexton 237(1)
On the Empire Builder Heading West
Peggy Shumaker 238(1)
Swans, Where We Don't Expect Them
Martha Silano 239(2)
The Forbidden Fruit
Floyd Skloot 241(4)
Gauguin in Oregon Brahms in Delirium
Esta Spalding 245(7)
The Key
Mrs. Barlowe's Plum Tree
Train Window
Primus St. John 252(2)
Watering the Orchids
Batey Tumba
Clemens Starck 254(2)
Neighbors
The Girl from Panama
Lisa M. Steinman 256(2)
Grogginess
Halting Meditation
Sandra Stone 258(2)
On the Boulders of Inanity
Joan Swift 260(2)
Light Years
Steelhead
Mary Szybist 262(4)
Touch Gallery: Joan of Arc
Knocking or Nothing
Sharon Thesen 266(1)
The Day Lady Di Died
Nance Van Winckel 267(4)
You People
Simone Weil at the Renault Factory (1935)
Up the Steps of the Capitol
Karen Volkman 271(3)
Sonnet: "Sweetest bleeding..."
Sonnet: "Bitter seed..."
Sonnet: "Nothing was ever..."
David Wagoner 274(5)
What the Stones Say
Desire
For an Old Woman at the Gate
Thoreau and the Quagmire
Emily Warn 279(5)
Appalachian Midrash
Kuf Mnemonic
Ingrid Wendt 284(1)
Mukilteo Ferry
John Witte 285(1)
Y
Carolyne Wright 286(1)
After We Received the News of the 100 -Mile Wind
Robert Wrigley 287(3)
For One Who Prays for Me
News
Letter to a Young Poet
Derk Wynand 290(2)
Kissing Booth
Reined In
Patricia Young 292(1)
Busted
Biographies of the Poets 293(34)
Acknowledgments 327

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