Why he doesn't sleep : the selected poems of Stephen Gardner /
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Huntsville, Texas :
Texas Review Press,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
Table of Contents:
- Wake him: a preface in nine voices
- Darkness into light: an introduction
- Poems of a second father: an editorial note
- From Taking the switchback (Texas Review Press, 2009)
- Going home
- 2 A.M., incense, a quart of gin, my dog with a bone
- Not about trees
- Why he doesn't sleep
- Taking pictures
- The carpenter's real anguish
- Walpurgis
- Moving: along the edges
- Waiting to leave
- On the edge in St. Louis
- Directions for finding the best way out
- Fore and aft
- The private miner speaks at last
- Good woman
- Saving lives
- Happy
- A day at the beach on the outskirts of Topeka
- Fourteen Dolphins
- Portage
- Home voyager
- Pastoral in the shadow of a city
- Relativity
- Jones
- Blizzard
- Light rain, Early Fall
- Any day now
- What will happen
- Seasoning
- This night
- Here it is
- Taking the switchback
- From the About the neighborhood manuscript
- Making an ice storm
- Giving away the cat
- Noise
- Three Photographs
- From The Alexander, hero manuscript
- On the cusp of a grand discovery, Alexander dreams of Napoleon
- Alexander stumbles over mercy
- Alexander cleans up at the new Jerusalem car wash
- Alexander remembers a stalker
- Alexander encounters the demonic
- Alexander understands plenty
- A postcard from Alexander in autumn, with late azaleas
- From the Small things manuscript
- Cascade
- Dog
- Old songs
- Redbird
- From This book belongs to Eva (Palanquin Press, 1996) (The Eva McCann diary revisions)
- 1/2/80: Knoxville
- 4/14/80: Fort Smith, Arkansas
- 7/14/80: Norman, Oklahoma
- 8/29/80: Norman
- 11/22/80: Huntsville, Texas
- 12/26/80: Nogales
- 1/27/81: Houston
- 2/11/81: Houston
- 4/1/81: Huntsville, Texas
- 4/6/81: New Orleans
- 4/8/81: Mobile, Alabama
- 4/9/81: Mobile
- 4/15/81: Atlanta
- 4/17/81: Atlanta
- 4/28/81: Atlanta
- The Town Creek Poetry interview.