Feather, a Child's Death and LifeUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1997 - 191 páginas With great tenderness, poet and critic Robert Peters recalls the brief life and sudden death of his son Richard, a four-year-old called "Feather" by his sister Meredith and brother Rob. Feather returns home ill one day from nursery school, spends the afternoon in bed with his father and his stuffed toy seal, and dies that evening. Looking back after decades on that February day in 1960, when the skinned knees, colds, and fevers of childhood were obliterated by the unthinkable--fatal meningitis--Peters sees with harrowing clarity the image of that little boy in the tugboat pajamas lying still on a gurney, one bare foot visible at the edge of the sheet. He recalls his anger, his confusion: "What shall I do with my hands?" |
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... Meredith's Mishap 58 Snapshots of an Indian Burial Ground 60 Snapshots of Ohio in Autumn 64 Snapshots of Autumn Harvest 67 Snapshots of Father with Histoplasmosis Snapshots of Early Snow 70 Snapshots of Children with Jack - o ...
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Snapshots | 3 |
Snapshots of Feathers Conception | 41 |
Snapshots of Fossil and Salamander Hunt | 49 |
Snapshots of Children at Play | 55 |
Snapshots of Ohio in Autumn | 64 |
Snapshots of Early Snow | 70 |
Snapshots of Feather and Thanksgiving Turkey | 77 |
Snapshots of the Execution | 88 |
Snapshots of Son on Hospital Gurney | 141 |
Snapshots of Child with Haircut | 147 |
Snapshots of Automobiles | 154 |
Snapshots of Night Sky with Snow | 161 |
Epilogue | 187 |