Chris Dombrowski

The River You Touch: Learning the Language of Wonder and Home

Learning the Language of Wonder and Home

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Produktbeschreibung

"We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us."--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 149mm x 223mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781639550630
• ISBN-10: 1639550631
• Artikelnr.: 63245403

Autorenporträt

Chris Dombrowski is the author of The River You Touch. He is also the author of Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World’s Most Elusive Fish, and of three acclaimed collections of poems. Currently the Assistant Director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana, he lives with his family in Missoula.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ∙ 1
 
I. YOUNG MOUNTAINS
Headwaters ∙ 11
Thunderbird Motel ∙ 18
Dostoyevsky’s Koan ∙ 28
Visitors ∙ 45
Seeds ∙ 61
Emissaries ∙ 73
Begin, O Small Boy, To Be Born ∙ 83
Windfall ∙ 92
Neighbors ∙ 109
First Fall ∙ 122
The River of Real Time ∙ 135
 
II. LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF RIVERS
Bed Rest ∙ 145
The Creaturehood ∙ 156
Road to the Buffalo ∙ 171
Heathen ∙ 183
Black River, Bright Stars ∙
194 Nine Months, Three Years Later ∙ 203
Three ∙ 215
 
III. THE NATURE OF WONDER
High Water Rising ∙ 229
The Deadstream ∙ 241
Old Mission ∙ 256
Good Harbor ∙ 265
Parr Marks ∙ 273
Great-Grandmother ∙ 294
Home Psalm ∙ 299
A Thimbleful ∙ 306
 
Notes ∙ 315
Acknowledgments ∙ 319