Resuming green: Selected poems, 1965-1982

by Roland Flint

Originally from Park River, North Dakota, Roland Flint was the author of eight collections of poems, including the 1990 National Poetry Series selection, Stubborn . He received a 1982 National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Discovery Grant from the same auspices in 1970. His work appeared in Triquarterly, Salmagundi, Poetry Northwest, Ohio Review , and The Atlantic , among other publications. He was professor of English at Georgetown University for 29 years and was on the teaching staff at Warren Wilson College and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. As Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1995 to 2000, he traveled to every county in the state, taking poetry into schools, prisons and hospitals. He died in 2001.First published in 1983 by the Dial Press, Resuming Selected Poems, 1965-1982 is now available in this eBook format. Here's anSkinIf the wood is good grain,and the carpenter, the fit, the caulking,the cask will be goodand if the grapes are good the wood and the winewill improve each other,in the dark long days of aging.The separate tastes of earthwill taste again and change again each other,until, like membrane, somehowin and between the wood and winethere will be no separation,wood from dark from wine.When this goes on, anything can happen.Go back, go back to mystery.Now I am grateful to my small poemfor teaching me thisthat my God is still the momentwhere the wood is no longer itself,where the wine is no longer, only, itself.

80 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

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[Mills College Library]

811.54 F624r 1983