Against distance : poems / by Peter Makuck.

Author/creator Makuck, Peter
Other author Makuck, Peter, 1940-2023 autographer.
Format Book
Publication InfoRochester, NY : BOA Editions, 1997.
Description95 pages ; 24 cm.

SeriesAmerican poets continuum series ; v. 42
American poets continuum series v. 42. ^A286929
Contents Tangier Island -- Dogwood Again -- After the Perfect Place -- Gray Removals -- Near the Agua Fria -- Catsail -- Ocean Fog -- After -- Close -- Chalet in Air -- Beyond French Doors -- Owl and Heron -- Lobsters -- Woodsmoke -- Against Distance -- Hunter -- Big Eddy, Upstream of the Grimesland Bridge -- Dry Creek -- Ritual on Indian Pier -- Leaning Against the Bar at Wrong Way Corrigan's in Greenville, North Carolina -- Not Wasted -- Dust Devil -- Subchaser -- On the Blue Again -- Papa -- Another Country -- Fluteman -- Valentine -- Bradfords -- Sequoia Sempervirens -- Above Spanish Forks -- Distance at the Dockside Inn -- Seascape -- Egret -- Flying Fish -- Day of the Warbler -- A Guide to Arrival -- Trafficking with Voices.
Abstract In Peter Makuck's Against Distance nature is both a reprieve and a danger. Here, various landscapes - oceans, inlets, rivers, foothills, deserts - pressure and test human relationships.
Summary The book's title poem finds a young boy on an inner tube in a rip tide - "waving an arm that couldn't be seen" and ends "thinking of saving/ and of being saved/ by a boy/ who could have been my son/ and kept me from drowning." In language full of power and surprise, Makuck illuminates nature's weather and the weather of the human spirit.
Local noteJoyner NC Roberts Collection copy includes autograph of author on title page.
Acquisitions source Joyner NC Roberts Collection copy gift of Anonymous, 6/24/2019
ISBN1880238446 (cloth)
ISBN1880238454 (paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS3563.A396 A75 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold
Joyner NC Roberts PS3563.A396 A75 1997 ✔ Available Request Material