The Way I Wait for You

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The Way I Wait for You

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David McCann - Author

Codhill Press

Price: $16.00
Paperback - 95 pages

Release Date: August 2010

ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-1-930337-24-4

Summary

“These poems are a wonderful, wide-ranging record of pleasure (or perhaps it is my pleasure reading them), for even those on death or persecuted poets have beauty and restraint and all of them, whether on seabirds or a Korean wedding, are touched with the poet’s signature wit and sense of astonishment.” — Paul Hamill, Poet Laureate, Tompkins County, New York

David McCann is Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. He is the recipient of the Order of Culture Merit Award (2006), the Manhae Prize in Arts and Sciences (2004), the Daesan Foundation Translation Grant (1997), and the Korea P.E.N. Center Translation Prize (1994). His poetry has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Runes, Prairie Schooner,and in the Pushcart Prize Anthology III. His books include Azaleas: Poems by Kim Sowol; Enough to Say It’s Far: Poems by Pak Chaesam, translated with Jiwon Shin; Traveler Maps: Poems by Ko Un; and The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry.

Table of Contents

1. Sunday Mornings at the Beach
Skipping Stones
Retreats
Beached

2. Cat Bird Tree
Sniffing Shit Movie
Intelligent Design: An Evolving Conversation
House
Poet’s House
Cheju Island Poet, Ko Un
Not This Stick

3. Winter in Florence
David
Perseus Holding the Head of Medusa
Labyrinth
Mid-Day Office Dream
Indifference: A Prayer
“Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson in 1897”
State Street

4. Onset
Lesson One
Winter Pond
The Blue Edge
Crossing the Road
Knots
Epiphany
Spring Again
Adirondack
When We Meet
Chorus Line

5. Moving Picture
Dog Alley
Tong Hwa Temple
Wedding Night
Sketch for Ellie Rea Golden, on her 80th
Morning Light
Road House Music
The Fall
Seasonal

6. Acid Content
Rock Music
Traffic Reports
Deconstructionist Reading
Trace
An Army of Readers
Fourth Person Singular
Balloon
The Tiny Seed
Fountain Pen

7. Lebensraum
Memorial Day, 2005
Notes from The Underground
London July 5
July 6
July 7
Friday
July 9
Coda

8. How We Heard the Name Again
Muse
Picture Brides
Crazy About You
Driving All Night
The Way I Wait for You

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