An edition of Gnawed bones
(2010)
Gnawed bones
poems
1st ed.
by Peggy Shumaker
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Peggy Shumaker's sixth full-length collection, "Gnawed Bones," is perhaps her finest. Shumaker covers a wide range--but she casts a far more personal eye, worrying at the puzzle of human relationships as well as human connection to the land itself.
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I. July twilight on the Chena.
July twilight on the Chena --
What we get used to --
Sea change --
Snapshot --
Polished table --
Deliverance --
Pheasant --
Gnawed bones --
Nests, an elegy --
Smoke --
When the ground cannot take in more rain --
Night drive --
Night watch --
As war goes on --
Bugler, Ft. Wainwright, Alaska --
Dive, three definitions -- -- II. Mystery aisle.
The provider --
Desert odyssey --
Touch and go --
Always the entertainer --
Rinsing that tomato --
You're here --
Chickens --
Swallows --
Ha ha ha --
No sign --
My father never --
Beyond words, this language --
Radio control --
No one knows how to speak --
Albóndigas --
Portal -- -- III. Mother of sorrows.
Land fraud nosebleed --
Desert climbing --
Better homes --
Go to the broom closet and pick out a stick --
Horny toads --
Asthma --
Our mother of sorrows --
Sky of souls --
Upset woman --
You should know better --
Glyphs on a limestone stela --
All the mustaches on all the Judases --
The aroma of rain in the desert --
Mango --
Ocotillo --
Norwegian wood --
Mother tongue --
The painting I didn't buy -- -- IV. Naming what we hold in our hand.
Wilderness --
Pale woman on stretcher --
What next --
A brief aside --
Narrow roads to/from the interior --
Missing --
Strokes --
Lapse --
Hard stick --
Spleen --
Shower --
Good sign --
Naming what we hold in our hand --
Kus-sun-ar --
Oatmeal --
In praise, ephemera --
Chatanika --
Long before we got here, long after we're gone.
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