- 128 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
The poems in Hummingbird Sleep move associatively between Coleman Barks's personal experience and his extensive reading, weaving together a wild and eclectic range of material. A discussion of Plotinus, Barks's appearance on PBS NewsHour, a note Keats once left on Wordsworth's mantelpiece, a splinter in the heel, and a quote from the Upanishads-all make their way into Barks's most recent poems, which achieve intimacy and expansiveness at the same time.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Starting Out from Ted Hughes’ Letters
- My Face and My Voice
- Lightning Bugs and the Pleiades
- My Segment on the NewsHour
- Accordion Sections
- Our Next Dying
- Word Choice
- Snow Day, the Word God, and the Threat of the Power Going Off
- Old Men Out Walking
- Inbetween Deaths
- The Splinter and the Riversticks
- The Scar on the Back of My Right Hand
- The Tuesday before Thanksgiving
- Tuck’s Coach
- Piecemeal
- Rise & Fall
- November Nights
- A Perfect New Moon
- Working Parts
- Boscage
- Iron-Knocking
- Catkins
- Darling
- Celery Hearts
- Two Squirrel Stories
- There Ain’t Nothing Like It
- He said, Benjamin my son said, . . .
- Salinger in Arabic
- Peter O’Callahan’s Dream of Me Not Being Here
- Witness
- A Sky-Opening
- Middle Falls
- Occasional
- Seagull
- Hummingbird Sleep
- The VOICE inside WATER
- Got to Stop
- What I Am Sure Of
- Coffeehouse Notes
- Fox
- Robert and Noah
- Original Sins
- It Is Raining with the Sun Out
- Blessing-Bow
- Anytime
- Midafternoon Midsummer
- We Laugh Together
- The Gift of a Comeback
- Heavy Rain in the Parking Lot
- Wittgenstein
- Grief in the Tub
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS