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Mapping the Bones of the World

Warren Hatch

Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2007

  • Warren Hatch: Author
Poetry
You sit down one morning at a sway-backed diner in a West Desert town. Wisps of story drift from the far end of the lunch counter or a back booth, a story you almost pull together: this aunt, that brother. You make out relationships, intertwining lives. You start to care, to wonder. And you realize, My life is there, too, parts of it. The morning light shifts across worn tile, the door of the diner rings open and closed. The greetings between customers. The unseen short-order cook rattling around behind his window. A waitress refills your cup, and you wait for the next wisp of story. [from publisher's web site]
Winner of the 2008 Poetry Award, Association for Mormon Letters
Table of Contents: Northern Cross Salt Valley Carpooling Cutting the Last Hay Stone, Water, Brothers Water Canyon hunting us. Conjunction The Voice of Water Here Where Thou Lodgest Standing on the Edge of the Valley Mapping the Bones of the World Pruning the Blood Plum Tree Knotted Ponderosa In Passing to Her Fathers The Fine and Dying Art of Shaping Light into Words Going Down to Ocean Silicon Timpie Valley Athena October above Trial Lake Keeping Fire Tracking Sun Floating Islands Token Under the Hunter dos dueƱos Taxonomy of Spirits
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PS 3608 .A863 M37 2007
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