Memorial Hall Library

Tender the river, poems, Matt W. Miller

eng

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poetry

Tender the river

1198088700

Matt W. Miller

poems

"Focusing on the Merrimack River, the book weaves historical, geological, social, and personal narratives together, from the last ice age, to the indigenous tribes that settled there and before driven off by Europeans, to the birth of the industrial age and the urban decline and rebirth of the late 20th century. It hopes to be a celebratory and critical look at the relationship between the various human worlds as well as the natural world they occupy and give readers a sense of the bigger story we are all a part of by using this one small scratch of the earth as an example"--, Provided by publisher

Foreword / Andre Dubus III -- Autobiography -- Invocation at the Merrimack Boys -- Beyond June -- Ghazal: Augumtoocooke -- Eve, Bumming a Smoke on a Porch in Pawtucketville -- Said the River When I Begged for Her Song -- Dissonance -- Third Day, Friday, May 1, 1992 -- Real Life -- Saving Throw -- Said the River When I Begged for His Song -- While Standing Near -- On My Mom Showing Me that Photo -- Insidious -- The Adorned Fathomless Dark Creation -- Legend -- Conditional -- Said the River When I Asked for Their Song -- River Valley Hexaëmera -- Lunae -- Martis -- Mercurii -- Lovis -- Veneris -- Saturni -- Solis -- Winter Break -- Ceremony Drowned -- Hannah in Effigy -- Misprision -- A Brief History of American Labor -- Textile Triolet -- Thirteen -- Sapphic -- Zenith of a Given Place -- Getting Out -- Oh Father, Your Fear -- Age of Discovery -- Then I Let the Alpine Play -- Ars Poetica -- Where One Starts From -- When I Am My Brother Fishing with Deron -- Arthur's -- Echo Tourism -- A Crack of Light