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This three-part volume sounds out a cycle that delights in creation, despairs over evil, and longs for restoration. Tracing life's dualities, these poems press together faith and uncertainty, love and loss, dream and waking, depression and exuberance. Locating humanity between the immense and the slight, The Sky's Larger Frame explores the world as a construction site in which God both reveals and conceals the scaffolds of his presence.
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Randall Compton
Randall Compton lives in Longview, Texas, where he teaches writing and literature at LeTourneau University. His work has appeared in Southwestern American Literature, Concho River Review, and St. Katherine’s Review, as well as other journals.
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Copyright © 2019 Randall Compton. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Acknowledgments
I.
Meditation in Texas Hill Country
Ambitions
Looking for Fossils in the Sulphur River
Grandfathers, 1970
Felling Bois d‘Arc
Losing Bois d‘Arc Creek
Day on Little Pigeon
Picnic near a Winter Wheat Field
Red Oak Leaves, April Morning
After Ten Years
Morning Spider
Google Me
Hinges of Hell
Stories I Tell Myself
Midnight Pantoum, Galveston Beach
Dreams, Then Waking
Lines for Breakfast
Sun Room, October Morning
Rereading Old Books
Preparing for Winter
Talking to Myself on My Fortieth Birthday
Interglacial
II.
Another Statement on Babel
Monster Minds
Subterranean Music
Logbook
The Seafarer: A Late Interpolation
Hard of Hearing
Morning, Noon, and Night
Haunts
Manuscripts in Hell
Yet Another Ars Poetica
Reading an Old Novel during a Thunderstorm
God the Magician
Sermon Notes
All My Small Designs
Elijah, after Ravens
Peak and Trough
Lament and Reply
Waiting for Amnesia
Rain Walk
Advice to Someone Like Me
Inner Ring
After an Ice Storm
Lost Prerogative
Viva
After Twenty Years
III.
Berth
Waking before Alarm Clock
New Year’s Day
General Revelation
God the Alchemist
Church Picnic
John VI, 53 ff
Meditation on a Theme from Heraclitus
Homily on Sorrow and Joy
Silver Anniversary
Envelope
Down the Guadalupe
Nothing for Now
Older Couple, Living in East Texas
Awaiting Another Sunset
Talking to a Red-tailed Hawk at Sunset
For Mary
Believing is seeing.
Acknowledgments
I am grateful to the editors of the following publications, in which some of these poems (a few with changes) first appeared:
5–2 Crime Quarterly: Sermon Notes
CCTE Studies: Logbook, Berth, Meditation on a Theme from Heraclitus, Picnic Near a Winter Wheat Field, Older Couple, Living in East Texas, Waiting for Another Sunset, Rain Walk, After an Ice Storm, Google Me, Advice to Someone Like Me, Waiting for Amnesia, Lines for Breakfast, Manuscripts in Hell
Concho River
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