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In the presence of the sun : stories and poems, 1961-1991
Record details
- ISBN: 0312098308 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780312098308 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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xx, 143 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | First paperback edition: October 1993 -- verso. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Selected poems: Bear -- Buteo Regalis -- Comparatives -- Earth and I gave you turquoise -- Simile -- Plainview: 1 -- Plainview: 2 -- Plainview: 3 -- Plainview: 4 -- Fear of Bo-talee -- Horse that died of shame -- Delight song of Tsoai-talee -- Sun dance shield -- Headwaters -- Rainy mountain cemetery -- Angle of geese -- Gourd dancer -- New world -- Carriers of the dream wheel -- Stalker -- Colors ofnight -- North Dakota, north light -- Long shadows at Dulce -- Crows in a winter composition -- Anywhere is a street into the night -- Burning -- Wound -- Forms of the Earth at Abiquiu -- Gift -- Strange and true story of my life with Billy the Kid: Two figures -- Word on Billy the Kid -- Riding is an exercise of the mind -- Billy the Kid, his rocking horse, a lullaby -- Billy the boy at Silver City -- Henry McCarty witnesses his mother's marriage, 1 March 1873 -- Man in black -- He reckons geologic time according to his sign -- Prospector catches sight of him in the Dona Anas -- On the simple nature of his lust -- Girl at the doll house -- Billy's boast to an old blind woman at San Patricio -- He counts Anacita the weaver among his true loves -- Billy the Kid offers a kindness to an old man at Glorieta -- He encounters a player at words -- He would place a chair for sister Blandina -- Billy fixes a bully in his gaze -- Trees and evening sky -- He foretells disaster in a dream -- He enters upon the afternoon of his last day -- Billy the Kid, the departure of his soul, 14 July 1881 -- Wide empty landscape with a death in the foreground -- Two figures -- In the presence of the sun, a gathering of shields: Story of a well-made shield -- Word on the plains shield -- Shattered sky shield -- Shield that came back -- Floating feathers shield -- Bote-talee's shield -- Sun dance shield -- Plainest of shields -- Shield of the time of the Bluebonnets -- Shield of which the less said the better -- Shield that died -- Walking bear's shield -- Shield of Pai-matone's brother -- Shield that was touched by Pretty Mouth -- Shield that was looked after by dogs -- Muddy horses shield -- Shield that was brought down from Tsoai -- Shield of two dreams -- New poems: Planned parenthood -- Death of beauty -- On futility -- On chastity -- Of ambition -- On the cause of a homely death -- Great Fillmore street buffalo drive -- Marina Green -- Nous avons vu la mer -- Fire at Thule -- Wreckage -- Old Guerre -- Hotel 1829 -- Concession -- Woman waiting on a porch -- Mogollon morning -- Prayer -- Four charms -- Rings of bone -- Scaffold bear -- If it could ascend -- My words do not hold -- Carnegie, Oklahoma, 1919 -- Lawrence ranch -- December 29, 1890 -- Fort Sill -- At risk. |
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