Fathers: A Collection of Poems

One hundred and eighteen of our finest American poets pay eloquent homage to their fathers and the broader concept of fatherhood in this loving anthology. In this splendid collection both daughters and sons introduce us and pay heartfelt tribute to their fathers. Whether writing of fathers who were heroes or anti-heros, defenders or pacifists, those who went away suddenly or those who reappeared after a long period of time, the poets here cast the net wide to harvest the infinite variety of the father-and-child relationship. This moving anthology includes: Raymond Carver's "The Trestle", Gwendolyn Brooks's "In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father", Rita Dove's "Grape Sherbert", Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays", Donald Justice's "Men at Forty", Hayden Carruth's "Words for My Daughter from the Asylum", Maxine Kumin's "My Father's Neckties", "Robert Bly's "My Father at Eighty-Fiver"

Literature & Fiction

Ray, Judy

Ray, David

History & Criticism

St. Martin's: Griffin

Caught sneaking a piece of pumpkin pie after he had been sent to bed, Angus, a boy who loves pumpkins, is transformed into a little dog who must guard a magic pumpkin.

Pumpkin Light

Children's Books

Philomel

A young boy's fascination with pumpkins gets him into trouble one Halloween

Holidays & Celebrations

Puffin

Touched Life: Poems, Selected and New

Poetry

Scarecrow Pr

Despite everyone's doubts, Diane determines that her puppy, the smallest and weakest in the sled dog litter, will grow strong and participate in the one-dog race twelve months away

To See the Moon

Bacon, Ethel

Bridgewater Books

Memories and history combine in these poems about the Vietnam War

The Maharani’s New Wall and Other Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Wesleyan University Press

Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, these poems written in India confront a variety of cultural issues and an American's response to places, rituals, individuals and historical figures. The dramatic title poem, which could serve for a movie script, deals with a Maharani's building a great wall which shuts peasants out of their ancestral territory. "David Ray's depictions and evaluations of Indian life are enthralling," wrote Richard Eberhart.

When Sam Ray was killed at nineteen in an accident, his father began writing poetry dedicated to his memory. Sam's Book is a collection of these elegies and other poems written during Sam's lifetime. "How should I mourn?" David Ray asks. By recalling poignant events from the past he transcends his grief. He remembers Sam's first bath, a "holy/Rite"; tying the shoelaces of the "little man"; traveling to Greece, where Sam is "the first.../to see the holy moon." With painful wit and regret he summons up the image of his son's blue Toyota, fastidiously transformed by Sam and his girlfriend into a "love nest." Ray muses on what he taught Sam and what Sam taught him. Originally published in 1987, Sam's Book won the 1988 Maurice English Poetry Award.

Sam’s Book (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

When Sam Ray was killed at nineteen in an accident, his father began writing poetry dedicated to his memory. Sam's Book is a collection of these elegies and other poems written during Sam's lifetime. "How should I mourn?" David Ray asks. By recalling poignant events from the past he transcends his grief. He remembers Sam's first bath, a "holy/Rite"; tying the shoelaces of the "little man"; traveling to Greece, where Sam is "the first…/to see the holy moon." With painful wit and regret he summons up the image of his son's blue Toyota, fastidiously transformed by Sam and his girlfriend into a "love nest." Ray muses on what he taught Sam and what Sam taught him. Originally published in 1987, Sam's Book won the 1988 Maurice English Poetry Award.

Sam's Book (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Winner of the 1998 Richard Snyder Publication Prize, this is the sixteenth book of poems by the 1994 winner of the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Prize. Formally accomplished, with a sure sense of subject matter, David Ray is one of our more important living poets. He lived and taught for years in Kansas City, and currently lives in Tucson, Arizona. ""David Ray's poetry has always been radiant even though personal tragedy has suffused it."" --Studs Terkel ""His writing is clean, clear, economical, and poetically attractive. But what is possibly more important is his contribution in the area of substance."" --Hayden Carruth.

Demons in the Diner

Ashland Poetry Press

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Books by Ray, David

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Fathers: A Collection of Poems

Pumpkin Light

Pumpkin Light

Touched Life: Poems, Selected and New

To See the Moon

The Maharani’s New Wall and Other Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

The Maharani’s New Wall and Other Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Sam’s Book (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Sam's Book (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Demons in the Diner