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Wagoner, David, author.

Traveling light : collected and new poems / David Wagoner.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1999.

301 pages ; 24 cm.

David Wagoner has won the acclaim of his peers and been compared with some of the most gifted poets in the English language. His collections have garnered Poetry's Levinson and Union League Prizes, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and nominations for the American Book Award and the National Book Award. For his most recent collection, Walt Whitman Bathing, Wagoner was honored with the Ohioana Book Award in the category of poetry.

Witty, eloquent, and insightful, Traveling Light offers new and familiar treasures from a master observer of both the natural and the human worlds. In a style by turns direct and intricate, Wagoner distills the essential emotions from people's encounters with each other, with nature, and with themselves. Through his compassionate but unblinking eyes, we see ourselves and the world that surrounds us more sharply delineated.

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From Collected Poems, 1956-76 -- One -- The Words -- Staying Alive -- Talking to the Forest -- Talking to Barr Creek -- Do Not Proceed Beyond This Point without a Guide -- Lost -- Sleeping in the Woods -- Working against Time -- One Ear to the Ground -- Report from a Forest Logged by the Weyerhaeuser Company -- Riverbed -- Fire by the River -- The Lesson -- Standing Halfway Home -- The Gathering of the Loons -- An Offering for Dungeness Bay -- A Guide to Dungeness Spit -- The Osprey's Nest -- Observations from the Outer Edge -- The Other Side of the Mountain -- Tumbleweed -- Water Music for the Progress of Love in a Life Raft Down the Sammamish Slough -- Leaving Something Behind -- Clancy -- Talking Back -- Nine Charms against the Hunter -- In the Open Season -- Moving into the Garden -- By the Orchard -- The Fruit of the Tree -- Snake Hunt -- The Death and Resurrection of the Birds -- The Singing Lesson -- Sequence: Traveling Light -- Breaking Camp -- Meeting a Bear -- Walking in a Swamp -- Tracking -- Missing the Trail -- From Here to There -- Being Shot -- Waiting in a Rain Forest -- Traveling Light -- Two -- After Consulting My Yellow Pages -- The Labors of Thor -- This Is a Wonderful Poem -- The Shooting of John Dillinger Outside the Biograph Theater, July 22, 1934 -- The Burglar -- The Holdup -- The Visiting Hour -- The Night of the Sad Women -- At St. Vincent DePaul's -- Bums at Breakfast -- A Valedictory to Standard Oil of Indiana -- A Touch of the Mother -- Elegy for a Woman Who Remembered Everything -- For a Man Who Died in His Sleep -- Doors -- Out for a Night -- Closing Time -- Free Passage -- A Day in the City -- The Apotheosis of the Garbagemen -- To My Friend Whose Parachute Did Not Open -- Speech from a Comedy -- Come before His Countenance with a Joyful Leaping -- Plainsong for Everyone Who Was Killed Yesterday -- Three -- Muse -- Words above a Narrow Entrance -- The Poets Agree to Be Quiet by the Swamp -- Advice to the Orchestra -- That Old Gang of Mine -- Every Good Boy Does Fine -- Diary -- The Calculation -- Going to Pieces -- Making Up for a Soul -- Walking in the Snow -- On Seeing an X Ray of My Head -- The Inexhaustible Hat -- Waiting on the Curb -- House Hunting -- Lullaby through the Side of the Mouth -- The Breaking Point -- The First Law of Motion -- Song Off-Key -- The Trail Horse -- Song to Accompany the Bearer of Bad News -- From Who Shall Be the Sun? (1978) -- Searching in the Britannia Tavern -- Old Man, Old Man -- Fog -- Salmon Boy -- Who Shall Be the Sun? -- Hoy Coyote Became Rock's Brother -- How Stump Stood in the Water -- How Raven Stole Light -- Song for the Bones of Salmon -- Song for the Coming of Smallpox -- Song of a Man Who Rushed at the Enemy -- Death Song -- Burial Song -- From Through the Forest: New and Selected Poems, 1977-87 -- One -- After the Speech to the Librarians -- Sharp-Shin -- Return to the Swamp -- The Author of American Ornithology Sketches a Bird, Now Extinct -- Thoreau and the Snapping Turtle -- Bears -- Games -- Photographing a Rattlesnake -- Washing a Young Rhinoceros -- Sitting by a Swamp -- Loons Mating -- Whisper Song -- Kingfisher -- Chorus -- The Source -- Getting There -- Two -- Feeding -- Boy Jesus -- The Junior High School Band Concert -- My Father's Garden -- My Fire -- The Best Slow Dancer -- Looking for Nellie Washington -- My Father's Football Game -- My Father in the Basement -- My Father's Ghost -- Elegy for My Mother -- In the Dream House -- Their Bodies -- Three -- Stump Speech -- An Address to Weyerhaeuser, the Tree-Growing Company -- The Shape -- Three Ways of a River -- The Excursion of the Speech and Hearing Class -- Driftwood -- Four -- On Motel Walls -- Applying for a Loan with the Help of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles -- Poem about Breath -- Catching the Big One at Lone Lake -- Eulogy for Richard Hugo (1923-82) -- Elegy while Pruning Roses -- The Death of the Moon -- The Astronomer's Apprentice -- Lament for the Nonswimmers -- The Naval Trainees Learn How to Jump Overboard -- Canticle for Xmas Eve -- Your Fortune: A Cold Reading -- The Calm -- Reading the Sky -- Landfall -- Five -- For a Woman Who Doubted the Power of Love -- Falling Asleep in a Garden -- The Orchard of the Dreaming Pigs -- Waking Up in a Garden -- A Woman Feeding Gulls -- A Woman Standing in the Surf -- Lifesaving -- That Moment -- A Guide to the Field -- Getting Away -- Our Blindness -- By Starlight -- For a Third Anniversary -- Downstream -- First Light -- From Walt Whitman Bathing (1996) -- One -- The Pink Boy -- The Laughing Boy -- Dizzy -- My Father Laughing in the Chicago Theater -- My Passenger -- My Mother and Father -- Walking around the Block with a Three-Year-Old -- A Woman Photographing Holsteins -- A the Mouth of a Creek -- Two -- Walt Whitman Bathing -- The Rosebush -- Love Still Has Something of the Sea -- A Young Woman Trying on a Victorian Hat -- The Padded Cell -- Blindman -- Three -- Bear -- A Pair of Barn Owls, Hunting -- For a Woman Who Phoned Poetry Northwest Thinking It Was Poultry Northwest -- Living with Snakes -- Clacy the Burro's First Day in Heaven -- For the Young Vine Maples -- For a Young Shield Fern -- Sequence: Landscapes -- Mapmaking -- On a Mountainside -- By a Waterfall -- On the Plains -- In a Pasture -- By a River -- On the Forest Floor -- In a Field of Wildflowers -- New Poems -- The Silence of the Stars -- In the House of the Dragon -- Recital -- Recitation -- A Letter Home -- A Summer Storm in Navarre, Ohio -- The Young Goats -- In a Garden -- Alexandra and the Spiders -- In the Shadow -- Looking for Shiva in the Public Market -- The Return of Orpheus -- Night at the Zoo -- Elegy for Some of My Poems -- Plainsong against the Raising of the Dead -- At the summit -- Planting a Red Maple -- For a Row of Laurel Shrubs.

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