The Mouth of Earth: Poems

ISBN-13: 9781948908849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 80 str.

Sarah P. Strong

Spis treści

PART I.
Fire Burns Grass | 3
Mobile | 4
Border | 6
On the Road to California | 7
Phone Call After a Fire | 8
Stalin | 9
Turning On the Lights | 11
Study Guide | 12
Notes from Detroit | 13
Diner | 15
Deus ex Machina | 17
Poolside | 18
The Apollos | 19
At the End of Brooklyn | 20
A Story | 21

PART II.
Dust | 25
Buffalo Grass | 25
Hattie Clemons, farmer | 26
Virgil T. Payne, veteran and farmer | 27
Eliza Barnett, farmer | 28
Eugene Samples, pastor | 29
Margaret Tsosie, shepherd | 30
Art MacAdams, fisherman | 31
Lula Bowen, housewife and Sunday school teacher | 32
Joe Martin, bartender | 33
Earl Owens, sharecropper | 34
Jesse Prather, farmer | 35
Azzie Morton, sixth grader | 36
Jennifer Smith-Ewing, museum curator | 37

PART III.
Graveside | 41
When My Daughter Builds with Blocks | 42
Such Fertile Land | 43
1. Janelle Stevens, home health aide, Oklahoma | 43
2. Consuelo Ramos Garza, farmworker, California | 44
3. In an arroyo, western Nevada | 45
A Word from Our Raindrop | 46
Pastoral at the March | 47
On Not Listening | 49
As the Days Turn Shorter | 50
The Winter We Lost Antarctica | 51
With the Floor Swept | 52
Footnote | 53
The Map | 54
Sunflowers | 55
At Midnight | 56
After This, Earth | 57
Anthropocene Birthday | 58

Acknowledgments | 59
Notes | 61
About the Author | 63