At the Great Door of Morning. Robert Hedin

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      Contents

        Title Page

        Note to Reader

        Foreword by Ted Kooser

       SELECTED POEMS, PART 1

      1  Moving Out with the Finches

      2  My Mother’s Hats

      3  Raising the Titanic

      4  Bells

      5  Rowing Lessons

      6  The Old Swede

      7  The Greatest

      8  Mincielli

      9  How Drabowski Became Famous

      10  Miss Sanvidge

      11  Basic Math

      12  My Mother Turns Ninety

      13  An Hour Ago

      14  The Bank at Fourth & Main

      15  Out Pruning

      16  Turning Sixty

      17  Not the Way They Used to Make Love

      18  The Afterlife of Airships

      19  The Great Liners

      20  Fliers

      21  Myron

      22  Rain

      23  Houses at the Artic Circle

      24  Afterward

      25  Family Reunion

      26  The Wreck of the Great Northern

      27  Houdini

      28  Sloughing

      29  Tanner’s Creek

      30  Rattlesnake Bluff

      31  Pollen

      32  Rowboats

      33  The Old Swede’s Feet

      34  The Old Scandinavians

      35  Hunting Agates at White Rock

      36  TRANSLATIONS

      37  On Translation

      38  Selected Translations of Rolf Jacobsen

      39  When They Sleep

      40  Moss, Rust, and Moths

      41  Night Music

      42  The Fly in the Telescope

      43  Are They Waiting for a Star?

      44  Dies illae