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Gods of Four Mile Creek : poems, essays, and photographs / by Phillip Howerton ; foreward by Steve Wiegenstein.

Howerton, Phillip Douglas, 1962- (author.).

Summary:

"In his second collection of Ozark poetry, Phil Howerton includes 68 poems, 18 photographs, and two essays, each catching a specific feature of Ozark life as it was, is, or is becoming. His gift is for detail, for clear-sightedness softened by whimsy. His love of rhythms and sounds permeate the book. As Steve Wiegenstein says, Howerton's poems are "deeply local, grounded in place, and yet also aware of broader concerns, the wider world, and the currents of history.""-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781952232831
ISBN: 195223283X
Physical Description: 99 pages : black and white photographs ; 22 cm
Publisher: Kirksville, MO : Golden Antelope Press, 2023.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword by Steve Wiegenstein -- Gods of Four Mile Creek -- Folks, Dead and Living -- To Know this Place -- An Old Corner Post -- Peach Cobbler, 1973 -- Wild Cherry Trees -- Keep Out -- The Last Mailbox on the Rural Route -- On the Second Ridge North-Northeast -- The Grade A Milk Barn -- Four Mile Creek -- Old Cedars -- Porch Swing Stolen from the Old Home Place -- September 15 -- Faded Now -- The Farm Forgets It was a Farm -- The Grandmother -- White Oak Posts -- The Google Car -- Five Cemetery Poems

I. The Pasture Cemetery -- II. Three Field Stones in a Hill Cemetery -- III. Forgotten Women in a Hill Cemetery -- IV. Field of Old Farmers -- V. Black Cemetery Outside of Town -- Amusements -- On Her Blindness -- Our Rainbow -- Calling Names -- Taking Roll in Head Start: Windyville, Missouri, 1967-68 -- When a Child, Hunting for Arrowheads -- Learning to Write a Poem during Art Class in First Grade at Age 56 -- Rabbit Trap -- A Bluebird Fades Beside an Indigo Bunting -- Moon Shot, July 1969 -- Farm Team -- Upon Finding My Elementary Grade Cards and a Crayon Drawing in Mother's Scrapbooks

At Age Nine, Learning to Whistle -- Petrified Turtle -- While Cleaning the Shed -- Distant Train -- The Call -- The Farm Youth's Companion -- Her Wheelbarrow -- At Her Woodpile -- New Garden in an Abandoned Horse Corral -- Hidden -- Ancient Cedar -- Displacements -- The Redbuds -- Century Farm -- I. The Folklorist -- II. Mother Jane -- III. Sister Rose -- The Quarry -- Homestead on the Buffalo National River -- When the Milk Cans Became Unemployed -- Lost -- Barn Swallows -- Persimmon Tree at Leyda and Summit -- Barn Removal -- Journal Entry: May 13, 2018 -- Settlers' Cabin

Groundhogs: A Parable -- She Recalls Moving to this Farm Sixty Years Ago -- Prickly Pear -- A Fence in Woods -- Peele's Barn -- Wallpaper in an Abandoned House -- Turkey Buzzards -- Dirt, Tree, Sky -- Mother Thinned Marigolds in July and Gave Me Some to Transplant -- Essays -- Four Mile Creek -- Off the Farm -- About the Author -- Passing