| Series |
American poets continuum series ; v. 42
American poets continuum series v. 42. ^A286929
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| Contents |
Tangier Island -- Dogwood Again -- After the Perfect Place -- Gray Removals -- Near the Agua Fria -- Catsail -- Ocean Fog -- After -- Close -- Chalet in Air -- Beyond French Doors -- Owl and Heron -- Lobsters -- Woodsmoke -- Against Distance -- Hunter -- Big Eddy, Upstream of the Grimesland Bridge -- Dry Creek -- Ritual on Indian Pier -- Leaning Against the Bar at Wrong Way Corrigan's in Greenville, North Carolina -- Not Wasted -- Dust Devil -- Subchaser -- On the Blue Again -- Papa -- Another Country -- Fluteman -- Valentine -- Bradfords -- Sequoia Sempervirens -- Above Spanish Forks -- Distance at the Dockside Inn -- Seascape -- Egret -- Flying Fish -- Day of the Warbler -- A Guide to Arrival -- Trafficking with Voices. |
| Abstract |
In Peter Makuck's Against Distance nature is both a reprieve and a danger. Here, various landscapes - oceans, inlets, rivers, foothills, deserts - pressure and test human relationships. |
| Summary |
The book's title poem finds a young boy on an inner tube in a rip tide - "waving an arm that couldn't be seen" and ends "thinking of saving/ and of being saved/ by a boy/ who could have been my son/ and kept me from drowning." In language full of power and surprise, Makuck illuminates nature's weather and the weather of the human spirit. |
| Local note | Joyner NC Roberts Collection copy includes autograph of author on title page. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner NC Roberts Collection copy gift of Anonymous, 6/24/2019 |
| ISBN | 1880238446 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 1880238454 (paper) |
