The Church of Omnivorous Light: Selected Poems

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Robert Wrigley is a poet of America's northern Rocky Mountains. Over three decades his poetry's pervading concerns have been rural Western landscapes and humankind's place within the natural world. His most recent poems have presented a portrait of a nation, one that is a singular part of a singular planet, with an exuberant and frequently exasperating culture. In such a country, the glimpse of a horse under a full moon can be a defining moment, full of grace and a new, if not always comfortable, awareness. So it is with a saved lock of a lover's hair, the memory of a vanished glacier, or a ch.;Cover; Description; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Epigraph; from THE SINKING OF CLAY CITY (1979); Lull; From Lumaghi Mine; Coroner's Report; from MOON IN A MASON JAR (1986); Moonlight: Chickens on the Road; Heart Attack; The Beliefs of a Horse; Torch Songs; Skull of a Snowshoe Hare; The Sound Barrier; The Glow; The Crèche; Appalonea; The Owl; from WHAT MY FATHER BELIEVED (1991); American Manhood; His Father's Whistle; Economics; For the Last Summer; Sinatra; C.O.; What My Father Believed; The Overcoat; Ravens at Deer Creek; from IN THE BANK OF BEAUTIFUL SINS (1995).