April 17, 2003
Book Picks
April has definitely not been the cruelest month at University Book Store, where we are winding down our celebration of National Poetry Month with book displays and readings. Help us pay homage to some of our best known UW poets, by taking this fun but difficult quiz….
Can you match these poem titles and lines of poetry with the UW poet?
1. To The Dog, Snubbed by Poets, Who Favor the Feline
For example, my collie Tassel:
She waggeth her tail at the Jehovah’s Witness
She lappeth water at 2 a.m.
She matcheth our carpet.
2. Cow Dance
She would prefer to stand and stare
Toward the far end of the field
At the fence where nothing is going to happen
3. Rainier
one day in seven, roughly, pokes its head
out of wool-gathering, and hogs the sky,
imposing, in the distance on the eye.
4. Delsey in the Window
she bathes in the casual light
of sunday until her sleek black
body is nubian pretty
5. So Thick?
As thieves, as clotted cream, as molasses poured in March,
or dullards duly quizzed, as thin’s mate in
the marriage vow
6. Bon Odori, Seattle
Before the dances, brightly kimonoed girls
Wearing clogs or Keds are eating hot dogs
And ice cream bars below the pink and yellow
7. Testament: Vermeer in December
To my daughter, Elsbeth, two loaf-sized, secret coffers.
To my sons, the pastel seascape.
And the peat chest. And the Spanish chairs, perhaps.
8. The Restored
In a hand like a bowl
Danced my own soul,
Small as an elf,
All by itself.
a. Hazard Adams
b. Nelson Bentley
c. William Dunlop
d. Colleen J. McElroy
e. Heather McHugh
f. Linda Bierds
g. David Wagoner
h. Theodore Roethke
These books are all available at University Book Store or www.ubook.store.com.
ANSWERS (with the title of the book in which the poem appears):
1-a The Farm at Richwood; 2-g The House of Song; 3-c Caruso for the Children; 4-d Travelling Music; 5-e The Father of the Predicaments; 6-b Collected Shorter Poems; 7-f The Seconds; 8-h The Far Field.
