Without My Asking: Poetry [Paperback]

In poems that range from New England to the Southwest, Without My Asking, takes its cue from Psalms 90s petitionteach us to number our days. That biblical sense of limitsof what we can know and not knowand, ultimately, the mystery of before and after that encloses our existence is the center around which these poems turn, both seasonally and from day-to-day. In poems that attend to the events of our livesfrom the deaths of parents to hummingbirds at a bird feederthese poems work to utter Yes to all that happens, that peculiar affirmative that recognizes, as Elizabeth Bishop says, Lifes like that . . . also death.

Evening Prayer with Opening Question xv One. Cedar Waxwings 3 Talking Turkey 4 Supermoon 6 Middle Tint 8 Prayer While Driving Home After My Yearly Physical 10 Dock Life 12 November 14 Obituary 17 Poverty 19 Little Did I Know 24 Two. Roadside Pe