All Good Water
Published on 28. September 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-9823545-3-7 (ISBN)
Description
J.P. White's poems are lit with a searching out of places where the truth of our wounds and wonder shines through.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
177 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9823545-3-7 (9780982354537)
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In the last 30 years, J.P. White has published essays, articles, fiction, reviews, interviews and poetry in over 100 publications including The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Gettysburg Review, American Poetry Review, and Poetry (Chicago). He is a graduate of New College in Sarasota, Florida, Colorado State University and Vermont College. He is the author of four books of poems and a new novel "Every Boat Turns South." He lives with his family in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Content
Contents
Part I
Inside Hell's Kitchen
Sunday Morning in Washington Square, 1968
Riding the River, Rolling the Bones
The Children's Barge
Lying in Bed Listening to the Train Pass through
Wayzata, Minnesota
At the Church of the Gladiators
White Silk
The Dancing Girls at the Diplomat
The Company We Keep
Open or Closed
40 Winks at the Cliff Castle Casino Hotel
in Camp Verde, Arizona
The Eye of Night
Hate & Envy
The Light Between the Mountains and the Sea
On the Mexican Train
My Lost Shoes
The Bumblebee
This Theory of Travel
Southern Comfort
The Dry-Docked Sloop
Part II
My August Susans
Push
My Mother's Girdle
Human Form
American Beach
Flying Over America
The Russian Smile
Lincoln's Hat
The Hospital of the Innocents
Adam's Extermination
Visiting the Wise Men of Cologne
Lights on for Safety
Shy Orange Slash
November
Thinking About the Enemy
Last Entry in the Logbook
Part III
Cleaning the Book Shelf
The Octopus
To Catch a Boat
The Origin of Farewell
On Any Given Day
Happiness is a Boat to Anywhere
Conversation for Another Day
My Crocodile
The Day You Can't Replace
The Minor Argonaut
Leaving Manzanita
When Things Go Wrong on Boats
The Found Marriage
The One Wind
Stage 4
The Green Sleep
Shard
Those Who Stay, Those Who Leave
All Good Water
Part I
Inside Hell's Kitchen
Sunday Morning in Washington Square, 1968
Riding the River, Rolling the Bones
The Children's Barge
Lying in Bed Listening to the Train Pass through
Wayzata, Minnesota
At the Church of the Gladiators
White Silk
The Dancing Girls at the Diplomat
The Company We Keep
Open or Closed
40 Winks at the Cliff Castle Casino Hotel
in Camp Verde, Arizona
The Eye of Night
Hate & Envy
The Light Between the Mountains and the Sea
On the Mexican Train
My Lost Shoes
The Bumblebee
This Theory of Travel
Southern Comfort
The Dry-Docked Sloop
Part II
My August Susans
Push
My Mother's Girdle
Human Form
American Beach
Flying Over America
The Russian Smile
Lincoln's Hat
The Hospital of the Innocents
Adam's Extermination
Visiting the Wise Men of Cologne
Lights on for Safety
Shy Orange Slash
November
Thinking About the Enemy
Last Entry in the Logbook
Part III
Cleaning the Book Shelf
The Octopus
To Catch a Boat
The Origin of Farewell
On Any Given Day
Happiness is a Boat to Anywhere
Conversation for Another Day
My Crocodile
The Day You Can't Replace
The Minor Argonaut
Leaving Manzanita
When Things Go Wrong on Boats
The Found Marriage
The One Wind
Stage 4
The Green Sleep
Shard
Those Who Stay, Those Who Leave
All Good Water