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University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta
Poetry that explores our fraught relationship with nature: playful, serious, heartsore Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- I The Same Mountain Twice -- The Same Mountain Twice -- Gray Wolf Pass --...
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Poetry that explores our fraught relationship with nature: playful, serious, heartsore Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- I The Same Mountain Twice -- The Same Mountain Twice -- Gray Wolf Pass -- Glacial Suite -- Appleton Pass: Watershed Nocturne -- Song of the Notch -- Song of the Wind-Loaded Ledges -- Larches on the Continental Divide -- Whiteout in May -- Some Goats -- Fat Salmon in the Clearwater River -- Sea to Sky -- Port Angeles -- Quadrilateral -- Fall Classic -- II Thisness -- Thisness -- Ecosystem -- Square -- Schist -- First, Failure -- Failure Revisited -- Eclipse -- A Premise in Kamloops -- Spell for the Museum of the Canadian Rockies -- To Gordon Burles -- Sunplay on Mountains -- In the Spirit World, on a Rock -- High Meadows, September -- Salmon Reconsidered -- In Winterâs Nick -- Seasonal -- For the Millionth Time -- Maundy Thursday -- Invocation -- III Instructions for Travel -- Instructions for Travel -- Teachers and Pupils -- A Lesson on Mount Rexford -- Late August, Nesakwatch Spires -- Snow Dome -- On Reading Conquistadors of the Useless, by Lionel Terray -- Mountain Failure -- Mount Rundle: Second Attempt: 18 September -- Avalanche Bulletin -- At Bozeman International, in Hugo Country -- Contra Naturam -- In Midair -- Transcontinental -- Cancer magister -- Cycling -- The Earthquake -- On Corporeal Existence -- IV Metamorphoses -- Metamorphoses -- The Beasts -- New England Aquarium -- Photosynthesis -- Horses off the Kitsap Shore -- Hot Spell in Wet Country -- Spell for the Elwha River -- In Praise of the Mountain Pine Beetle -- Pastoral -- Auspex Maximus -- Sightings -- Several Birds -- Guillemots et guillemets -- Auks Redux -- Migration to the Antipodes -- Biography -- The Emperor of Ice -- Grizzly -- The Bear and the Wind -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press