A Stick That Breaks and Breaks
by Boruch, MarianneFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-10-01
Publisher(s): Oberlin College Pr
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Summary
In this remarkable fourth collection of poems, Marianne Boruch continues to explore the world around her with curiosity, wry humor, searching skepticism and thoughtful tenderness.
Table of Contents
| Omens | p. 1 |
| Momentary, In Winter | p. 7 |
| Lent | p. 9 |
| Halfway | p. 11 |
| In the Street, Men Working | p. 12 |
| Sewing | p. 14 |
| Camouflage | p. 15 |
| Chinese Brushwork | p. 17 |
| Crushed Birds | p. 19 |
| Happiness | p. 20 |
| Nesting Boxes | p. 22 |
| Car Covered with Snow | p. 24 |
| The Vietnam Birthday Lottery, 1970 | p. 25 |
| The Book of Hand Shadows | p. 27 |
| I Notice on My Walk | p. 28 |
| Swimming Lesson | p. 29 |
| The Auction | p. 31 |
| The Great Ape House | p. 32 |
| The Hawk | p. 34 |
| Snow Falling | p. 35 |
| Stained Glass Windows | p. 36 |
| Bird Passing | p. 37 |
| Library Stereopticon | p. 40 |
| Fasting | p. 45 |
| Tulip Tree | p. 46 |
| Lament | p. 49 |
| I Paint My Bad Painting | p. 51 |
| The Dove | p. 57 |
| Late Winter Fog | p. 59 |
| Fish | p. 61 |
| Aubade | p. 63 |
| Head of an Unknown Saint | p. 67 |
| Hospital Greenhouse | p. 68 |
| Smoking | p. 69 |
| The Exterminator | p. 71 |
| At the Watercolor Gallery | p. 73 |
| Waiting Out the Music Lesson | p. 74 |
| Fireworks at New Year | p. 75 |
| The American Opera Company | p. 76 |
| Old Ball Field | p. 78 |
| The Bay Waters | p. 79 |
| By the Sea | p. 82 |
| Two Umbrellas | p. 83 |
| Exhaustion | p. 85 |
| X-Ray Vision | p. 86 |
| A Small Thing | p. 88 |
| Home Videos of the Hurricane | p. 90 |
| Above the Chinese Cemetery | p. 92 |
| In Your Garden | p. 94 |
| After Surgery | p. 95 |
| Flowers | p. 97 |
| Cello | p. 98 |
| Old Cemetery | p. 100 |
| Year in Hawaii | p. 101 |
| Nest | p. 103 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 104 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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