Record details

• ISBN: 0822958775
• ISBN: 0822942585
• ISBN: 9780822958772
• ISBN: 9780822942580
• Physical Description: 142 pages ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Sure signs: Selecting a reader -- First snow -- An old photograph -- The constellation Orion -- The salesman -- Old soldiers' home -- Self-portrait at thirty-nine -- Christmas Eve -- Visiting mountains -- The leaky faucet -- A frozen stream -- Living near the rehabilitation home -- Late February -- A drive in the country -- Spring plowing -- Sitting all evening alone in the kitchen -- Sure signs -- A summer night -- In a country cemetery in Iowa -- The man with the hearing aid -- The very old -- Walking beside a creek -- Book club -- At the end of the weekend -- Uncle Adler -- In the corners of fields -- How to make rhubarb wine -- Late lights in Minnesota -- The afterlife -- A widow -- So this is Nebraska -- Fort Robinson -- How to foretell a change in the weather -- Snow fence -- In an old apple orchard -- An empty place -- After the funeral : cleaning out the medicine cabinet -- The grandfather cap -- Shooting a farmhouse -- Beer bottle -- Sleeping cat -- North of Alliance -- Late September -- Carrie -- For a friend -- Grandfather -- Looking for you, Barbara -- Pocket poem -- Moles -- Notes on the death of Nels Paulssen, farmer, at the ripe old age of 93 -- Advice -- After my grandmother's funeral -- A hot night in wheat country -- Five P.M -- Abandoned farmhouse -- The blind always come as such a surprise -- Furnace -- West window -- Boarding house -- A letter from Aunt Belle -- At the bait stand -- The tattooed lady -- A death at the office -- There is always a little wind -- The Widow Lester -- Houses at the edge of town -- The old woman -- A place in Kansas -- Tom Ball's barn -- My grandfather dying -- The Red Wing Church -- Highway 30 -- Birthday -- The failed suicide -- The goldfish floats to the top of his life -- They had torn off my face at the office -- Year's end -- New Year's Day -- Walking to work -- Sunday morning -- One world at a time: Flying at night -- A fencerow in early March -- Just now -- A birthday card -- In the basement of the Goodwill Store -- Camera -- A room in the past -- In January, 1962 -- Tillage marks -- A child's grave marker -- Father -- At midnight -- Central -- The fan in the window -- Myrtle -- Daddy longlegs -- Good-bye -- The giant slide -- A roadside shrine in Kansas -- Decoration day -- A monday in May -- A buffalo skull -- Laundry -- The mouse -- Ladder -- Walking at noon near the Burlington Depot in Lincoln, Nebraska -- A patch of sunlight -- Carp -- At the center -- A sunset -- The ride -- At nightfall -- At the office early -- Cleaning a bass -- An empty shotgun shell -- A quarter moon just before dawn -- A letter -- Latvian neighborhood -- The Voyager II satellite -- The witness -- As the President spoke -- The pitch -- The sigh -- The onion woman -- Hobo jungle -- An August night -- The urine specimen -- Geronimo's mirror -- Porch swing in September.

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