Sam's Book
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Sam's Book

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Sam's Book

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About This Book

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.

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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN
9780819572950
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Praying for Signs
  7. The Snapshots
  8. Teaching
  9. In the Gallery Room
  10. Son
  11. The Apple that Fills the Room
  12. For Samuel Cyrus Ray 6/6/65
  13. At the Washing of My Son
  14. The Shoelaces
  15. A Polaroid on the Porch
  16. Calabria
  17. In Greece
  18. The Temple at Paestum
  19. In the Evening
  20. For My Son
  21. Innocents Abroad
  22. Statues
  23. The Iowa Farmhouse
  24. The Old Days
  25. The Night Sam and Wes Stayed in their Own Hotel Room
  26. The Father
  27. A Visit to Amana
  28. Thanksgiving in Sioux City
  29. The Visit
  30. How to Be Loved
  31. Ropewalk
  32. When My Children Left for the Alps
  33. The Witness
  34. End of the Road
  35. Thanks, Robert Frost
  36. On the Photograph “Yarn Mill,” by Lewis W. Hine
  37. Scroll
  38. Burial
  39. Treasuring the Snapshot
  40. Neighbors
  41. Mom
  42. Not at All
  43. In the Third Month
  44. Ghosts
  45. At the Opera
  46. First Snow
  47. Sam
  48. A Plastic Cube
  49. Thanksgiving 1984
  50. The Weeping Session in Italy
  51. Brief Song
  52. Haiku
  53. The Birth of Woe
  54. Beads, Pony, Prayer
  55. The Question
  56. Between Alp and Sea
  57. Regrets
  58. The Search
  59. In the Children's Library
  60. Writing
  61. Bhopal
  62. The Parting
  63. And April Arrives
  64. To Sam
  65. Tricks of the Mind
  66. Another Trick of the Mind
  67. The Cypress Root
  68. The Return
  69. The Petrified Forest
  70. Other books by David Ray
  71. About the author