Conditions Of Grace: New And Selected Poems

Synopsis

American Flyer -– Plain Sense -- Photograph Of Three Sisters, 1954 -- Two Snapshots Of My Father -- Before We Lost Our Ways -- For My Sister, 1961 -- How To Know There's A Heaven -- Butchering Chickens --finding The Homestead House, 1963 -- In The Likeness Of -- Delivering The World Herald, 1968 -- Steady, 1972 -- Fireside Myths, 1974 -- The Ball Game, 1975 -- The Poetry Reading, 1977 -- Young Men At 24 -- The Trigger -- Passing The Bottle -- The Old School -- Sitting On Foth's Roof, With Beer -- On Seeing The Ex-wife -- Night Fishing On Missouri's James River -- Last Practice -- Traveling To The Big Empty -- The Evening News -- December 1944 -- Anna Cernik's Diary: Of Daughters And Sons -- No Accounts, 1948 -- The Cowley County Murders, 1959 (the Deputy's Report) --the Creighton Pool Hall -– Bladen, Nebraska -- The Oasis Bar -- February Wash -- The Significant Otter --the Rock Hound -- Elms -- The World – The Suicide -- American History -- Hands --^ The Move To Tarkio, Missouri, 1985 -- Windows -- These Children -- Vigil At A Missile Silo -- Assets, 1987 -- Villanelle For Nathan -- 0 Beautiful, 1990 -- Prayer After Sex -- Children Of The Clouds -- Self-portrait -- The Yawn -- The Big Empty -- Split, 1992 -- Planning The Affair Custody -- The Last Night -- Montage -- The Poets -- Little Sahara -- The Company Representative And The Trainee -- The Death Of The Vaudevillian -- Liberace In Heaven -- The Poem -- Digging For Fossils -- The Lie -- The Brain-eaters -- Surviving -- The Heart -- Death's Door -- The Intercessor -- Weldon Kees At The Bridge -- The Uptown Bar -- Pancakes -- The Cranes, Texas January -- My Children's Inheritance -- Talking November Weather, Long Distance -- For Travis, Disappointed By First Love -- Syllogism: On Highway 12, Clearwater River -- My Son, At Post, Camp Victory, Baghdad -- Anxiety -- New York, January 2007 -- On Horseback, Hell's Gate Canyon, October -– The Fiction Of Place --^ Conditions Of Grace -- Why We Bought A Horse -- The Idaho Farm, June 2004 -- 108°-the Horse Pasture -- Meteor Shower, With Horses -- The High Desert, Idaho, September -- Physics -- Feeding Horses, During Snow -- Horses, Considering Winter -- Grace, This Spring -- The Horse Considers Hell -- Nine Choruses, In Which Horses Play A Part -– Anecdote Of The Horses – Early Morning On Farm Road -- In Hurricane, With Horses -- A Thousand Reasons -- Reparations -- Dog Bite -- Cold Front, September -- Frost At First Sun -- Jed, Last February -- Fog On Farm Road Woods -- Beatitudes, June Dusk -- Night Walk On Farm Road -- Burying The Dog -- Across Farm Road -- Garden Report -- Thunderstorm On Farm Road -- Owls, Near Midnight -- Sleeping With Dogs -- Armadillo On The Tall Lawn, 4 A.m. -- The Slope -- The Cannas -- Late Evening, November Sleet --beatitudes, Again: The Horse Lesson, July Nightfall – Acknowledgments. Mark Sanders. Includes Bibliographical References.