Riverbed.

Author/creator Wagoner, David
Other author Wagoner, David inscriber.
Other author Strand, Mark, 1934-2014, former owner.
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, [1972]
Description76 pages ; 21 cm

Contents Riverbed -- The fisherman's wife -- The keepers -- In the badlands -- Talking back -- The trail horse -- The death and resurrection of the birds -- The ascent of the carpenter -- Doors -- Trying to think by a steel mill -- A touch of the mother -- For a man who died in his sleep -- Song offkey -- Lying awake in a bed once slept in by Grover Cleveland -- Contemplating a bust of William Jennings Bryan -- The inexhaustible hat -- Laughter in the dark -- The extraordinary production of eggs from the mouth -- Epitaph for a ladies' man -- A Victorian idyll -- Six for sax -- A police manual -- Fortuna imperatrix mundi -- The middle of nowhere -- Job's answer -- One ear to the ground -- Waiting with the snowy owls -- To be sung on the water -- Halcyon days -- Elegy for the nondescript -- The survivor -- One more for the rain -- The break of day -- A morning on the outside. -- Gift wrapping -- Last words of the human fly -- The vacation -- Do not proceed beyond this point without a guide -- The other side of the mountain -- Doing time -- The first law of motion -- The floating lady -- The makers of rain -- The doves of Merida -- The gathering of the loons -- Old man, old man -- Lost -- Fog.
Local noteJoyner Wright Coll. copy inscribed "For Mark [Strand] with admiration and affection, Dave Wagoner, Feb. '72." Includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #71.40. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
General notePoems.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011
LCCN 74166118
ISBN0253174759
Stock number$4.95

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