Lichen songs : new and selected poems

Summary: A collection of poems about Eastern Oregon. Author George Venn is a poet, writer, literary historian, editor, linguist, and educator living in Eastern Oregon.

Record details

ISBN: 9781947465039
Physical Description: 123 pages ; 23 cm
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Publisher: [Hemet, Calif.] : Kelsay Books, 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"George Venn [is] one of the best-known and most respected poets in the state...." -Jeff Baker, The Oregonian.

Formatted Contents Note:

From Off the Main Road (1978) -- Fall dance -- Tomato -- Setting backfire -- Words -- Songs for carpenters after summer -- Poem against the first grade -- Directions for visitors -- Bird talk -- Split Kindling -- Forgive us ... -- Inviting Alex to the bees -- Report on Grandparents' house -- How to live two days in Osburn, Idaho -- Off the main road -- From Marking the Magic Circle (1987) -- Early morning: Washington 12 toward Ohanapecosh -- My mother is this white wind cleaning -- High cascades -- Larch in the fall -- The black wolf of love -- A gallon of honey in glass -- Conjuring a Basque ghost -- Report from the east of the mountains -- Coyote teaches Jesus a new word -- Professors in their masks as fence posts -- Blue hour: Grandview Cemetery -- Sleeping upstairs -- From West of Paradise (1999) -- The emperor breeds only on the ice -- Five six minutes in March -- Among decoys -- In the time of gold trees -- Excuses in snow -- A Hanford veteran: Jay Mullen's story -- On West Burnside, Portland -- Gyppo -- A.J. Dickey couldn't run the ends -- Segues for Interstate 84, Westbound -- Fable for an arrogant century -- A father speaks to his son the only boy in the seventh grade choir -- Voice from another wilderness -- Family scavenger -- The treehouse at 316 North Regent Street, Burlington, Washington -- My aunt, Helen of Avon -- Uncle Leonard, penitent -- Elegy for a migratory beekeeper -- Grandma Wilhelmina at eighty-five -- Star -- The lichen family story -- June night, full moon -- Eagle cap -- Water music, the Upper Imnaha River -- A dream of two -- from Published Uncollected Poems (2000- ) -- In the cabinet shop, you never know ... -- Awakening -- Blue Mountain march -- Crawl space -- Easter on "B" Avenue with doe and fawns -- Street cries, Spain -- The engineer in love at fifty-five -- Spring work -- Teacher in the desert -- The world according to apples -- Inside the foreign experts' compound -- After divorce -- Waiting for the Bohemians -- Crossing the Blues in March -- Picnics -- Out of dreams I come to light -- Riding out -- This might be our story -- In court -- Moving the old stone -- Admonitions on turning sixty-one -- Freshman mime: talent show, Caldwell, September, 1961 -- Visitor in December -- A horse person opera -- Winter bananas (1974-2016) -- The man who broke his crown -- Winter dreamer -- Deal Canyon birds after the 2017 Blizzard.