Table of Contents

Faces Faces Repetitions Field Robert Frost Viewers Narrative Before Sleep Grosbeaks December 7 Nostalgia 1970, Santa Clara, Reading the Names Family Albums

Fairmoor Jerome, Arizona Touring Arizona 1492 Fremont Fairmoor Arrival Parochial Furniture Flood Waters This Hour

The Biographer's Art Postcard Child Vermeer: The Music Lesson Waiting for Nothing Harbor The Biographer's Art

Walkers House Zuelke's After Drought Noise Fathers and Infants Power Outage July at the 45th Parallel Indulgence Blue City of Roses All Day the Sea Walkers

Promotional Information

Because Lex Runciman gives himself to it with such unreserved and, more distinctively, unembarrassed attention, the domestic world--the world of the household, backyard, the neighborhood street--is flooded with a pathos, a quality of light, a delicious and familar beauty that one sees in the paintings of Vermeer. In the range of its ideas and responses, in the gravity of its concerns, this book is refreshingly, disarmingly large. -- Sherod Santos

About the Author

Lex Runciman was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and now teaches at Oregon State University in Corvallis. His first volume of poems, Luck, was issued in a limited edition in 1981.

Reviews

"Because Lex Runciman gives himself to it with such unreserved and, more distinctively, unembarrassed attention, the domestic world--the world of the household, backyard, the neighborhood street--is flooded with a pathos, a quality of light, a delicious and familar beauty that one sees in the paintings of Vermeer. In the range of its ideas and responses, in the gravity of its concerns, this book is refreshingly, disarmingly large."--Sherod Santos