From Whence

The threshold-the moment when a situation or a person is transformed into something new, for either good or ill-is the central image of From Whence. In many of these lyric poems, the moment of change either is in sharp focus or is exerting its gravitational pull on the poem. It could be the instant when a rock being held up on a frozen pond melts through and makes its plunge, or that dizzying moment when a child realizes that his childhood is over forever. It is leaving a church revival, finding snow outside, and seeing that "Each flake, each one individual we knew, / disappeared into all the others / and made a place for the moonlight to rest." In these moments are loss and newfound joy. Book jacket.

Michael Chitwood is a visiting lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Threshold
Chalk	p. 3
The Garden	p. 4
Acolyte	p. 5
The Drawing	p. 6
Music Lesson	p. 7
Organist	p. 8
Duty and History	p. 9
Revival	p. 10
Science or History, I Forget Which	p. 11
Correspondence	p. 12
Grammar	p. 13
Assistant	p. 14
Basement Barber	p. 16
Division	p. 17
The Round, Turning World	p. 18
Threshold	p. 20
Your Shade on Your Right Hand
The Puzzles	p. 23
His Gratitude	p. 24
Luke's Mom	p. 25
Praise	p. 26
The One Day	p. 27
Telling It	p. 28
The Inheritance: A Lamentation	p. 30
Good Heart	p. 34
Skinning	p. 35
Check-Up	p. 36
Digging
Morning Walk, Holden Beach	p. 39
Quarters, Dimes, Nickels	p. 40
The Seasons Come and the Seasons Keep Coming	p. 41
Virginia History	p. 42
At the Wilco with Some Founding Fathers	p. 44
Talc like Dust	p. 45
Men Throwing Bricks	p. 46
Easy Street, Continental Homes, Luck, the Destination of Southern Conversation, and Dust	p. 47
Dominion	p. 50
Oscillating Fan	p. 51
The Small-Town Voice of God	p. 52
After Ice and Snow	p. 53
Baptist	p. 54
The Wedding at Cana	p. 55
Out Here	p. 56
Digging	p. 57
Getting Turned Around in Point Pleasant Where the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers Converge	p. 58
Where We Go When We Die	p. 60
Live	p. 61
From Whence	p. 62
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