INNOCENCE
by JEAN NORDHAUS
The Ohio State University Press, 2006
Paper: 978-0-8142-5158-4 | eISBN: 978-0-8142-7543-6 (individual) | eISBN: 978-0-8142-7246-6 (institutional)
Library of Congress Classification PS3564.O558I5 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
TOC
Contents Acknowledgments The Rope Was Innocent <b>I.</b> The Infant King I Knew the Rudiments The Sound: Seventeen Year Cicadas Waiting for a Bus in Baltimore The Bruise The Nuclear Family Bluegrass Ambition Two Sightings and a Valediction Wanting Red Hair in October The Platypus Dreams Eight Hours a Day <b>II.</b> I Am Talking to You about Love Junk Surface Tension The Sad Dream of Peace Dinner on the Fault Line The Woodchuck In Nagasaki The Last One Yiddish To Hold Aunt Lily and Frederick the Great Anniversary <b>III.</b> The White Meal To Tell a Sorrow A Dandelion for My Mother Pauline Is Falling Posthumous The Stones Were Mute From a Window in Jerusalem Each Dawn¿s Breaking My Mother Lies Head to Head with Esther Stone Elderly Woman Holding a Dead Bird: Surrey County Asylum, Circa 1855 Arroyo Seco: A House at the Crossroads The Mountain <b>IV</b> Earth Music Pottery Urn with Incised Pictographs Oracle Bone: Inscribed Scapula of an Ox My Father Did Not Believe Tomb of MarquisYi of Zeng Chime of Twenty-six Bronze Bells As for the Dog Jade Shroud Sewn with Gold Wire My Mother, Likewise Pity the Poor Silks Bronze Cooking Vessel The Innocents
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