Reaching for longer water : poems selected and new /

Award winning poetry critic Ange Mlinko wrote of Parsons and his work, "The Renaissance man was once a courtly ideal; Parsons shows that it is a democratic ideal too?warm-blooded, muscular, as companionable on the page as in the flesh." Both tangible and cerebral, Parsons?s poetry lifts it...

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Main Author: Parsons, David M., 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, 2015
Edition:First edition.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Austin relativity
  • Night hawk
  • Street fighter
  • Green beer summer mornings 1964
  • Shirts vs skins
  • Rapids
  • Austin fire
  • Night hawk
  • The pride
  • Two dogs howling at the moon
  • Revenant old Austin songs
  • Integration 1964
  • Knuckle ball
  • Austin child
  • Austin child 2005
  • Lifeguard
  • Home
  • Fire
  • Feathering deep
  • Gust of wind
  • Evening after eating rainbows (caught on Mystic Lake)
  • Sound heard only at poetry readings
  • Still life
  • Wolf attack
  • Reading old heart
  • Blinds
  • Re-resurection
  • It's not about remembering
  • Among Renoir faces
  • Church going open sestina 2010
  • Frost critics
  • Portents of inscape
  • The back alley rabbit of Maida Vale
  • Falling
  • Whitman
  • Thumbnail: Eliot
  • Thumbnail: Pound
  • Thumbnail: Dickinson
  • Hills
  • Ghost hawk
  • View from the cliffs
  • Keys
  • The frank gaze of women
  • Orange County
  • Comforter
  • Sixties music
  • The marriage lost
  • Historic houses
  • Step daughter
  • The dancer
  • Second marriage
  • Fried green tomatoes
  • The vultures of summer vestibules
  • Evidence
  • View from the cliffs
  • The edit
  • Lifeguard
  • Snapping in
  • Texian
  • The people
  • Canoeing
  • Clarity
  • Midnight Montana
  • Portland morning
  • Boscoe Pertwee and me
  • Archaic reflections on Blake's baptism
  • The etymology of sound
  • Discovering Soren Kierkegaard
  • Memories of Camp Mathews in Finnish rhapsody 1961
  • My hero cousin
  • The gift of time & sight
  • Sometimes the darkness
  • Puberty
  • Kindred
  • Handball
  • Good Friday
  • Ghost hawk
  • Peace
  • Kites
  • Losing sight
  • My previously owned son
  • I would give you the single strawberry
  • Color of mourning
  • They
  • Lake lady dancing on a hill
  • Inscaping the storm
  • Challenge court
  • Flying to my father
  • Speechless
  • Bridge weld
  • Roots
  • Discovery
  • Remembering Ashley Michelle
  • Spring suicide
  • Trail markers
  • Wheel well
  • Knowing
  • Sounding
  • Editing sky.