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still here, still now books by robert pack poetry Composing Voices Elk in Winter Rounding It Out Minding the Sun Fathering the Map: New and Selected Later Poems Before it Vanishes: A Packet for Professor Pagels Clayfeld Rejoices, Clayfeld Laments: A Sequence of Poems Faces in a Single Tree: A Cycle of Dramatic Monologues Waking to My Name: New and Selected Poems Keeping Watch Nothing but Light Home from the Cemetery Selected Poems (England) Guarded by Women A Stranger’s Privilege The Irony of Joy poetry for children The Forgotten Secret Then What Did You Do? How to Catch a Crocodile The Octopus Who Wanted to Juggle literary criticism Willing to Choose: Volition and Storytelling in Shakespeare’s Major Plays Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost The Long View: Essays on the Discipline and Hope of Poetic Form A∞rming Limits: Essays on Morality, Choice, and Poetic Form Wallace Stevens: An Approach to His Poetry and Thought Still Here, Still Now robert pack The University of Chicago Press / Chicago and London Robert Pack is the Abernethy Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Emeritus at Middlebury College. He is the author of nineteen books of poems, most recently Rounding It Out and Elk in Winter, both published by the University of Chicago Press. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2008 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2008 Printed in the United States of America 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 1 2 3 4 5 isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 64415- 8 (cloth) isbn- 10: 0- 226- 64415- 4 (cloth) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pack, Robert, 1929– Still here, still now / Robert Pack. p. cm. isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 64415- 8 (alk. paper) isbn- 10: 0- 226- 64415- 4 (alk. paper) I. Title. ps3566.a28s75 2008 811'.54—dc22 2007039509 o The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48- 1992. For Patty all the way . . . and laugh At gilded butterfl ies . . . —william shakespeare (King Lear, V, 3) contents Acknowledgments, xiii i. for you and you Another March, 3 Facing You, 4 Paul Sees More Light, 5 Flute Music at Noon, 6 You Are the One, 7 The Blue Vase, 9 Mountain Dawn, 11 No Reconciling, 13 Tornado Consolation, 14 Moonlight Mirrorings, 15 The Story’s End, 16 Logical Speculation, 18 Grandson, 21 Comforting, 25 ii. short and tall tales Reincarnation, 29 Literary Ravens, 31 Happiness, 34 Four Guys Cross Montana, 38 The Stutterer, 41 Arguing Friends, 43 The Teacher Shakes Up His Class, 46 Brothers, 47 Pride and Laughter, 52

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Robert Pack is one of America’s most eminent nature poets, and his virtuoso talents are on glorious display in Still Here, Still Now, his nineteenth volume of verse. With styles ranging from lyric to narrative, and themes stretching from biblical concerns to meditations on contemporary science, Pa
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