Between a rock and a heart place

Between a rock and a heart place

Winner of the David Lloyd Kreeger Creativity Award (1988) and the George Mason University Poetry Prize (1976), Brother Rick Wilson, T.O.R., presents here a collection of his finest creative writing poems of family, love, suffering and memory. His poems are vivid, intelligent, musical, and intimate. "Sound is wonderfully wedded to sense here... This is a book which yields up in richness what I most long for when I pick up a book of poems: vision; experience; travel in the world as another soul views it."-Richard Bausch. O. Henry Award; PEN/ Faulkner Award Citation.

  • Cover
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • I. BENEDICTIONS
    • Benediction
    • Beercannus americanus
    • Scarecrow's Dream
    • 32° and Dropping
    • Winter Prelude
    • Quiet Cave Poem
    • Quarry
    • Sun Dance
    • Nocturnal Benison
    • The Gourd Dipper
    • De Profundis
  • II. BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HEART PLACE
    • Saul
    • Between a Rock and a Heart Place
    • Compline
    • Granuloma
    • The Alchemy of Pain
    • Dr. Schram's List
    • Time On Its Side
    • Poem, Little Tavern
    • Exeunt
    • Act of Contrition
    • I.C.U.
  • III. HOMING IN
    • Dowser
    • Relief Map
    • Off The Backroads
    • Search Party
    • Back Tracking
    • Love Poem
    • Broken Sleep
    • Poem at 2:17 P.M.
    • Far From Home
    • The Archtypal Classroom
    • August Night Qualms
    • Homing In
  • NOTES

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