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Travel in My Borrowed Lives : New and Selected Poems

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For almost half a century, Donald Everett Axinn has been writing poetry in which, as Jay Parini notes in his introduction, ""the stamp of individuality, the personal voice of the poet, lives on every page."" A seasoned pilot, as well as a poet and novelist, Axinn revels as much in viewing the world from above as he lovingly, though often wryly, surveys the scene around him here below. Whether in his charming love poems, his delight in the evolving seasons, or his search to understand people and places - and indeed himself - Axinn offers a fresh look at the world through the eyes of a cons
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eng
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1 online resource (201 pages)
Contents
  • Cover; Also By Donald Everett Axinn; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Publication History; Author's Note; Introduction; Sliding Down The Wind (1978); Roman Roads; Down on the Beach; Over the Atlantic; Oh, Stand Quietly in Salt Water; Land of My Fathers; New Hampshire Summer Sunday; Yesterdays Touchdown; Saturdays Black Hole; THE HAWK'S DREAM (1982); Travel in My Borrowed Lives; The Hawk's Dream; Rachel; Salmon Run; True Love; Appointment in Samarra; Barrier Beach; Land of Dixieland; Saturday Night on the Desert, March 1938; "Mountain that was God."
  • AGAINST GRAVITY (1986)Impossible Tasks; Tree; Genesis; Stalls; Clouds; Forgetting Jesse Carpenter; Turn-On; Late Monday Afternoon, Just Before the Rain; Time to Fly; THE COLORS OF INFINITY (1990); The Hunter; A Father Remembered; Death of the Son; The Bull Comes to Pamplona; The Colors of Infinity; Kiss; Birth of Quasars; THE LATEST ILLUSION (1995); A Miniature Life; Electrons and Beaver Ponds; Vietnam; Byrd, Richard Evelyn, Rear Admiral, U.S.N.-Imagined, from His Diary; George "Ace" Alligator (Mississippiensis), Now Residing in Florida; This Is What You Get; On Being Stoic; Amelia Earhart
  • Tracks of the Father, Tracks of the SonThis Way to Morning; The Reading; Pilot; This One Aspect; CHANGE AS A CURVED EQUATION (2002); Change as a Curved Equation; The Way Forward, the Way Back; Until He Asked Me; First Love; Yaqui Universe; Makah Country; Mathematics for a Rainy Morning; WALKING THROUGH THE NIGHT (2006); Jones Beach; Walking Through the Night; Elegy for Bob Johnson; Discover the Air; Biplane Pilot; NEW POEMS (2008); I Will Lie Down by an Honest Stream; The Seasons, Northern Hemisphere; First the Clowns; There Is More to Tell; Immigrant; The Weather; Why Because; Phlox
  • How Carefully I Study Her SleepThe Bed; A Certain Truth; Summer Morning; Signs and Signals; College Reunion; Friends; What I See; Security; Bare Essentials; Siblings; Come with Me; Flight to Middlebury in a Boeing Biplane; Old Man Greets a Small Boy; January Daybreak on Long Island Sound; Atiantic Sky 33,000 Feet on Delta #73, Istanbul to JFK; Across the Grand Canyon at 39,000 Feet; Day of the Maccabees, Masada, 164 B.C.E; Portovenere ("Sinum Spedia"); Countries We Choose to Visit; The Tide on St. Simon's; Nevada Through a Jet Window; Apache; Navajo; Song of the Sioux; Abanaki; Cheyenne
  • ComebackPilot After Flying Through a Storm; Fixed Relationships; All Thoughts
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9781611455625
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Travel in My Borrowed Lives : New and Selected Poems
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Travel in My Borrowed Lives
Title remainder
New and Selected Poems
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
For almost half a century, Donald Everett Axinn has been writing poetry in which, as Jay Parini notes in his introduction, ""the stamp of individuality, the personal voice of the poet, lives on every page."" A seasoned pilot, as well as a poet and novelist, Axinn revels as much in viewing the world from above as he lovingly, though often wryly, surveys the scene around him here below. Whether in his charming love poems, his delight in the evolving seasons, or his search to understand people and places - and indeed himself - Axinn offers a fresh look at the world through the eyes of a cons
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Axinn, Donald Everett
Dewey number
811.54
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3551.X5
LC item number
T73 2012
Literary form
non fiction
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dictionaries
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Parini, Jay
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  • American poetry
  • American poetry
  • Poetry
  • Women poets, American
  • POETRY
  • LITERARY CRITICISM
  • American poetry
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Travel in My Borrowed Lives : New and Selected Poems
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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text
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rdacontent
Contents
  • Cover; Also By Donald Everett Axinn; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Publication History; Author's Note; Introduction; Sliding Down The Wind (1978); Roman Roads; Down on the Beach; Over the Atlantic; Oh, Stand Quietly in Salt Water; Land of My Fathers; New Hampshire Summer Sunday; Yesterdays Touchdown; Saturdays Black Hole; THE HAWK'S DREAM (1982); Travel in My Borrowed Lives; The Hawk's Dream; Rachel; Salmon Run; True Love; Appointment in Samarra; Barrier Beach; Land of Dixieland; Saturday Night on the Desert, March 1938; "Mountain that was God."
  • AGAINST GRAVITY (1986)Impossible Tasks; Tree; Genesis; Stalls; Clouds; Forgetting Jesse Carpenter; Turn-On; Late Monday Afternoon, Just Before the Rain; Time to Fly; THE COLORS OF INFINITY (1990); The Hunter; A Father Remembered; Death of the Son; The Bull Comes to Pamplona; The Colors of Infinity; Kiss; Birth of Quasars; THE LATEST ILLUSION (1995); A Miniature Life; Electrons and Beaver Ponds; Vietnam; Byrd, Richard Evelyn, Rear Admiral, U.S.N.-Imagined, from His Diary; George "Ace" Alligator (Mississippiensis), Now Residing in Florida; This Is What You Get; On Being Stoic; Amelia Earhart
  • Tracks of the Father, Tracks of the SonThis Way to Morning; The Reading; Pilot; This One Aspect; CHANGE AS A CURVED EQUATION (2002); Change as a Curved Equation; The Way Forward, the Way Back; Until He Asked Me; First Love; Yaqui Universe; Makah Country; Mathematics for a Rainy Morning; WALKING THROUGH THE NIGHT (2006); Jones Beach; Walking Through the Night; Elegy for Bob Johnson; Discover the Air; Biplane Pilot; NEW POEMS (2008); I Will Lie Down by an Honest Stream; The Seasons, Northern Hemisphere; First the Clowns; There Is More to Tell; Immigrant; The Weather; Why Because; Phlox
  • How Carefully I Study Her SleepThe Bed; A Certain Truth; Summer Morning; Signs and Signals; College Reunion; Friends; What I See; Security; Bare Essentials; Siblings; Come with Me; Flight to Middlebury in a Boeing Biplane; Old Man Greets a Small Boy; January Daybreak on Long Island Sound; Atiantic Sky 33,000 Feet on Delta #73, Istanbul to JFK; Across the Grand Canyon at 39,000 Feet; Day of the Maccabees, Masada, 164 B.C.E; Portovenere ("Sinum Spedia"); Countries We Choose to Visit; The Tide on St. Simon's; Nevada Through a Jet Window; Apache; Navajo; Song of the Sioux; Abanaki; Cheyenne
  • ComebackPilot After Flying Through a Storm; Fixed Relationships; All Thoughts
Control code
ocn818869982
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (201 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781611455625
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
FCA0802B-EF98-4FDF-8178-196D0B30D855
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(OCoLC)818869982
Label
Travel in My Borrowed Lives : New and Selected Poems
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Publication
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Cover; Also By Donald Everett Axinn; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Publication History; Author's Note; Introduction; Sliding Down The Wind (1978); Roman Roads; Down on the Beach; Over the Atlantic; Oh, Stand Quietly in Salt Water; Land of My Fathers; New Hampshire Summer Sunday; Yesterdays Touchdown; Saturdays Black Hole; THE HAWK'S DREAM (1982); Travel in My Borrowed Lives; The Hawk's Dream; Rachel; Salmon Run; True Love; Appointment in Samarra; Barrier Beach; Land of Dixieland; Saturday Night on the Desert, March 1938; "Mountain that was God."
  • AGAINST GRAVITY (1986)Impossible Tasks; Tree; Genesis; Stalls; Clouds; Forgetting Jesse Carpenter; Turn-On; Late Monday Afternoon, Just Before the Rain; Time to Fly; THE COLORS OF INFINITY (1990); The Hunter; A Father Remembered; Death of the Son; The Bull Comes to Pamplona; The Colors of Infinity; Kiss; Birth of Quasars; THE LATEST ILLUSION (1995); A Miniature Life; Electrons and Beaver Ponds; Vietnam; Byrd, Richard Evelyn, Rear Admiral, U.S.N.-Imagined, from His Diary; George "Ace" Alligator (Mississippiensis), Now Residing in Florida; This Is What You Get; On Being Stoic; Amelia Earhart
  • Tracks of the Father, Tracks of the SonThis Way to Morning; The Reading; Pilot; This One Aspect; CHANGE AS A CURVED EQUATION (2002); Change as a Curved Equation; The Way Forward, the Way Back; Until He Asked Me; First Love; Yaqui Universe; Makah Country; Mathematics for a Rainy Morning; WALKING THROUGH THE NIGHT (2006); Jones Beach; Walking Through the Night; Elegy for Bob Johnson; Discover the Air; Biplane Pilot; NEW POEMS (2008); I Will Lie Down by an Honest Stream; The Seasons, Northern Hemisphere; First the Clowns; There Is More to Tell; Immigrant; The Weather; Why Because; Phlox
  • How Carefully I Study Her SleepThe Bed; A Certain Truth; Summer Morning; Signs and Signals; College Reunion; Friends; What I See; Security; Bare Essentials; Siblings; Come with Me; Flight to Middlebury in a Boeing Biplane; Old Man Greets a Small Boy; January Daybreak on Long Island Sound; Atiantic Sky 33,000 Feet on Delta #73, Istanbul to JFK; Across the Grand Canyon at 39,000 Feet; Day of the Maccabees, Masada, 164 B.C.E; Portovenere ("Sinum Spedia"); Countries We Choose to Visit; The Tide on St. Simon's; Nevada Through a Jet Window; Apache; Navajo; Song of the Sioux; Abanaki; Cheyenne
  • ComebackPilot After Flying Through a Storm; Fixed Relationships; All Thoughts
Control code
ocn818869982
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (201 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781611455625
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
FCA0802B-EF98-4FDF-8178-196D0B30D855
System control number
(OCoLC)818869982

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