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Travel in My Borrowed Lives, New and Selected Poems

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Travel in My Borrowed Lives

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New and Selected Poems

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

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 EarhartTracks 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; PhloxHow 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; CheyenneComebackPilot After Flying Through a Storm; Fixed Relationships; All Thoughts