An Open Book (poems)
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An Open Book is a collection of poems by Orson Scott Card
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II - Apocalyptic Verses
III - Wholly Writ
Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
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Contents
I - Hunger, Love, and Death- Walking on Water
- Short-Lived Creatures
- Echo
- Grain of the Wood
- Of a Private History
- This Is the Poem I Made Then
- I Go Out the Door
- The Man Who Came Back from the Lunar Colony
- 5 a.m.
- Declaration
- Myrtle Beach
- Elves
- Light and Shade
- Rapunzel Summons the Prince
- In Touch
- My Son in Love
- Barbarians
- Browning, Cummings, Tennyson
- To One Not Poisoned Yet
- To Alice, Recently of Wonderland
- How Do You Know You Love Me?
- Lovers Do
- In Winter I Wrote Love Poems
- Hands
- Old House
- Old Mother
- Grandfather Is Home from Seattle
- He Died of Cystic Fibrosis at 24
- Prayer in the ICU
- Grandma in the Corner, Dying
- O Hurried Guest
- A Poem for Erin's First Christmas
- Worlds Might Stumble
- When
- Of My Beloved Son
II - Apocalyptic Verses
- Tin Men
- On Another Road
- If I Hadn't Overturned the Stone
- Dog and Bear
- Winter of Wishes
- Judge
- One Will Be Taken
- Broken Kings
- Hordes
- Outside the Ark
- Potion for Immortality
- From a Spirit to the One Possessed
- Warning to a Long-Haired Woman
- Redeemers
- Fire at the End of the World
- Point Most West
- No Snow White
- Mammon
- Needle
III - Wholly Writ
- Corn Is the Soil Song
- Last Supper
- Slight Bread
- If Jesus Wept
- Holy Moments
- John 4:14, 15
- Unremarkable They Grow
- Is Prophecy a Gift?
- Jacob Smith of Somerset
- Openings
- Thou Whose Hand Is Ever Light
- Deep Slow Illness
- All That the Earth Can Yield