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| Title: | An Oregon message / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William Stafford |
| ISBN: | 0060550937; 9780060550936; 0060962135 (pbk.); 9780060962135 (pbk.) |
| Notes: | Content: Keeping a Journal -- First Grade -- A Life, a Ritual -- Surrounded by Mountains -- Little Rooms -- The Big House -- A Voice from the Past -- Confessions of an Individual -- To Recite Every Day -- Sleeping Toward Heaven -- For People With Problems About How to Believe -- Next Time -- Burning a Book -- Salt Creek -- The Book About You -- Thinking About Being Called Simple by a Critic -- Learning How to Lose -- Querencia -- Serving with Gideon -- Ground Zero -- Looking for Gold -- Stillborn -- Chicory -- Say You Are Lonely -- Scars -- Honeysuckle -- School Play -- A Ceremony: Doing the Needful -- Graffiti -- For the Unknown Enemy -- Being an American -- Our Time -- Over the North Jetty -- On Earth -- Walking with Your Eyes Shut -- A Dream of Descartes -- When You Hear This -- Waiting in Line -- Not Having Wings -- Afterward -- Four Oak Leaves -- An Oregon Message -- Why I Am Happy -- Bird Count -- A Day at Home -- The Dean at Faculty Retreat -- Final Exam: American Renaissance -- The Rodeo at Sisters, Oregon -- Simple Talk -- Purifying the Language of the Tribe -- Starting with Little Things -- Today -- Ultimate Problems -- Uncle Bill Visits -- Visiting -- Volkswagen -- When I Met My Muse -- Where the Saw Is -- Ghalib Decides to Be Reticent -- A Writer's Fountain Pen Talking -- Stone, Paper, Scissors -- The Sparkle Depends on Flaws in the Diamond -- A Day Last Summer -- Mr. or Mrs. Nobody -- Ode to Garlic -- Scripture -- Forget -- Turn Over Your Hand -- Pilgrims -- 1932 -- 1940 -- A Game and a Brother -- Brother -- Madge -- Waiting Sometimes -- Hearing the Song -- 108 East Nineteenth -- Mother's Day -- Getting Scared -- A Memorial for My Mother -- The Land Between the Rivers -- Our Neighborhood -- How It Is with Family -- When You Go Anywhere -- By Tens -- Afraid of the Dust -- Good Room -- My Mother Said -- To the Children at the Family Album -- What If We Were Alone? -- Saint Matthew and All -- Run Before Dawn -- Owls at the Shakespeare Festival -- Loyalty -- Figuring Out How It Is -- Looking Up at Night -- Dear Sky -- Barnum and Bailey -- Lie Detector -- Deciding -- Help from History -- Austere Hope, Daily Faith -- By a River in the Osage Country -- Wovoka in Nevada -- Arrival -- Something I Was Thinking About -- Publius Vergilius Maro -- Report from an Unappointed Committee -- Santa's Workshop -- Seasons in the Country -- My Hands -- Our Journey, a Story from the Dust -- The Bush from Mongolia -- Fame -- Practice -- Maybe Alone on My Bike. |
| Description: | 143 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Keeping a Journal -- First Grade -- A Life, a Ritual -- Surrounded by Mountains -- Little Rooms -- The Big House -- A Voice from the Past -- Confessions of an Individual -- To Recite Every Day -- Sleeping Toward Heaven -- For People With Problems About How to Believe -- Next Time -- Burning a Book -- Salt Creek -- The Book About You -- Thinking About Being Called Simple by a Critic -- Learning How to Lose -- Querencia -- Serving with Gideon -- Ground Zero -- Looking for Gold -- Stillborn -- Chicory -- Say You Are Lonely -- Scars -- Honeysuckle -- School Play -- A Ceremony: Doing the Needful -- Graffiti -- For the Unknown Enemy -- Being an American -- Our Time -- Over the North Jetty -- On Earth -- Walking with Your Eyes Shut -- A Dream of Descartes -- When You Hear This -- Waiting in Line -- Not Having Wings -- Afterward -- Four Oak Leaves -- An Oregon Message -- Why I Am Happy -- Bird Count -- A Day at Home -- The Dean at Faculty Retreat -- Final Exam: American Renaissance -- The Rodeo at Sisters, Oregon -- Simple Talk -- Purifying the Language of the Tribe -- Starting with Little Things -- Today -- Ultimate Problems -- Uncle Bill Visits -- Visiting -- Volkswagen -- When I Met My Muse -- Where the Saw Is -- Ghalib Decides to Be Reticent -- A Writer's Fountain Pen Talking -- Stone, Paper, Scissors -- The Sparkle Depends on Flaws in the Diamond -- A Day Last Summer -- Mr. or Mrs. Nobody -- Ode to Garlic -- Scripture -- Forget -- Turn Over Your Hand -- Pilgrims -- 1932 -- 1940 -- A Game and a Brother -- Brother -- Madge -- Waiting Sometimes -- Hearing the Song -- 108 East Nineteenth -- Mother's Day -- Getting Scared -- A Memorial for My Mother -- The Land Between the Rivers -- Our Neighborhood -- How It Is with Family -- When You Go Anywhere -- By Tens -- Afraid of the Dust -- Good Room -- My Mother Said -- To the Children at the Family Album -- What If We Were Alone? -- Saint Matthew and All -- Run Before Dawn -- Owls at the Shakespeare Festival -- Loyalty -- Figuring Out How It Is -- Looking Up at Night -- Dear Sky -- Barnum and Bailey -- Lie Detector -- Deciding -- Help from History -- Austere Hope, Daily Faith -- By a River in the Osage Country -- Wovoka in Nevada -- Arrival -- Something I Was Thinking About -- Publius Vergilius Maro -- Report from an Unappointed Committee -- Santa's Workshop -- Seasons in the Country -- My Hands -- Our Journey, a Story from the Dust -- The Bush from Mongolia -- Fame -- Practice -- Maybe Alone on My Bike. |
| Responsibility: | William Stafford. |
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Stafford, William, 1914-1993. Oregon message. New York : Perennial Library, c1987 (OCoLC)569582860 Online version: Stafford, William, 1914-1993. Oregon message. New York : Perennial Library, c1987 (OCoLC)609115485 |
| Year: | c1987. |
| Publisher: | New York : Perennial Library, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 87000208 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: PS3537.T143; Dewey No.: 811/.54 |
| OCLC No.: | 15252863 |
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