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To sing along the way : Minnesota women poets from pre-Territorial days to the present
Title:
To sing along the way : Minnesota women poets from pre-Territorial days to the present
ISBN:
9780898232325
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Moorhead, MN : New Rivers Press, 2006.
Physical Description:
245 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Ojibwe love-charm songs / From Minnesota : then and now / wood spirits and the maiden ; From Jenny Wade of Gettysburg / From Ta-Gosh : an Indian idyl / Black crows ; In time ; passing of the Indian, from Radisson, the voyager : a verse in four acts / Christmas carol ; Harebell ; cross and the pagan / Connecting stars / path of the moon on Mille Lac / Blossom time / Farewell to autumn / Dandelions ; Kitchen tea ; Mande (myself) / lovely loneliness ; Love ; nude / Irina ; Make no vows ; From The miller's youngest daughter / Bobbed hair / girl that I used to be ; White fire / Strike tents ; En route again / Crosses ; Imprisoned womanhood / I lie quite still ; O bright, bright king tomorrow ; price / Silver land ; trees ; weaver

letter on fame to Tu Fu ; Summer night landscape for Wang Wei / captive ; difference / Easter ; Tumbleweeds / Lingerie ; Seams / Autumn ; Wisdom / elder sister / To American mothers ; From Wilderness journeys, 1659-1661 ; Mediterranean / Bones of the martyrs ; New York Hotel ; nun / On St. Louis Bay / Grapes ; I who had been afraid ; Riddles / Rites of ancient ripening / She who brings winter ; farmer's wife ; fisherman / Seven years ago / penny for your thoughts ; L'envoi / Autumn ; Quietness / To Bill Heikkila, American ; Wall Street honors the unknown soldier / Love potion ; Three a.m. / tire swing ; Letter of introduction / Letter never sent / September / Oranges

Fish / Cinderella ; Sacred heart ; Sturdy arms / Shallows / Too good to waste / Jacob, crossing over ; Will Sommers, Confederate soldier / Another love letter / threshold / American miniaturist / So unlike any simple thing I know / little helper / Relations / Acorn / Saint Stranger / Alone / Bombers / Lot's wife / After the pig butchering ; Me learning to dance / Last night on a northern lake / Arrival : 1973 / feast of the Holy Family / Laos on the radio / Natt Og Dag : return to Norway after 25 years / Inside the boat house / foster child / St. Paul : walking ; moment ; Who we will love / Watermelon Hill / Flying blue angel / Skater / road in northern Minnesota

What to pack / Solstice / In a sheep's eye, darling / Loving motels / scholar in the playroom / Fishing / 21 postcards / Winter washday / Song in Killeshandra / Flat-backed fox / Jump rope / Advice to myself ; Owls ; Rez litany / Shell River / In defense of semicolons / Slow brown fox / Vigil / Kleptomania / Up north ; Bridal wear / Vermilion Trail / Opening the face ; What holds / What it was like / If I were the moon / Night walk to the sauna / After the death of his brother's wife / pregnant wife eats dirt / Belleek / Northern oracle

Hallways of a diamond : January 2004 / Animoosh ; Stung / Index of first lines / I have made a paper boat / Omens / Anticipating hoarfrost / She no zen / Democratic vistas / Kitchen sketch with government surplus / Record / tourist's prayer bead bracelet / Keys
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Summary:
Anthology of poems by Minnesota women from the mid-1800s to the present.
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