Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat: PoemsScavenging the Country for a Heartbeat takes readers on a journey from the Maine coast to the Pacific Northwest, from Vermont to the Florida Keys, from the Louisiana swamps to the plains of Kansas and Nebraska. Guided by his belief that "what is missing/makes memory whole," poet Neil Shepard revisits landscapes marred by conflict and compromise. What he discovers is solace and the possibility of transcendence. As a collection these poems detail an emotional evolution - a spiritual transformation - in which progress is measured in "the distances still stretching away." Book jacket. |
Contents
The Missing | 3 |
Flesh | 9 |
Suburban Meditation | 16 |
A Visit From My Wife | 22 |
Two Deaths and a Transmigration | 30 |
The Boy Who Was Part Frog | 39 |
For Vivian | 46 |
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