Tethered to the Earth

Tethered to the Earth contains human figures in two landscapes as well as the complex emotions evoked when one is far from home. After living and teaching in Northern Wisconsin for two school years and traveling through Europe for five weeks (the summer between), the poet's view of the world seemed a far bigger place. These poems are meant to address two types of isolation and awakening, an evocation of two personal places within oneself. With the stark and desolate beauty of Ashland, Wisconsin and the wandering style of European life, the imaginative nature of two distinct parts of the earth begin to transmit themselves.

Tyler Farrell is now an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Dubuque (Iowa).

Northern Wisconsin
On Seeing a Girl Pluck a Four Leaf Clover	p. 13
Many Hours After the Night Began, I Walked Home In The Dark	p. 14
A Walk In A Field Ten Miles Outside of Town	p. 15
On Hearing That While Ice Fishing Alone, A Boy Drowned in Long Lake	p. 16
Ode to a Stranded Horse	p. 17
Transporting a Cow to the Mainland	p. 18
For A Winter Scarf That Has Stayed With Me Despite My Forgetfulness in Recognizing Its Strength and Devotion	p. 20
When We Were Children of the Woods	p. 21
From Downy Hill	p. 23
An Auction at Harbor Lights	p. 24
The Altar of Forests, The Palace of Fallen Trees	p. 26
Letter From An Old Tree	p. 28
On Seeing a Man Painting the Lake	p. 30
The Sun, I Could	p. 31
To a Pair of Shoes Left in My Office	p. 33
Thoughts on Leaving South Shore	p. 35
Two White Hands	p. 36
Broken Thorn Trees at an Unmarked Grave	p. 37
On Reading An Article About The Death of The Written Word	p. 38
From an Aerial View, A Map of the Northwoods	p. 40
The Sky a Living Grey	p. 41
Reflecting on a Poem Written By A Girl from Willow Point	p. 42
The Lake Is A Pistol in Winter	p. 44
For the Ghost of the Northwoods	p. 46
An Hour of Broken Light	p. 47
Voices from Cold County	p. 48
Letter from Madeline Island	p. 49
Europe Like a Forest Praying
Arriving at Atocha Station	p. 53
A Sudden Sense of Panic From Watching a Wasp Wither and Die	p. 54
Three Women Who Wept	p. 55
Elegy for Father Louie	p. 56
To Frank O'Hara in Heaven	p. 58
For an Old Woman Who Lives in Salema	p. 59
On Seeing the Ghost of Frank O'Hara at the Louvre	p. 60
A Garden in Morning: Poem on James Joyce's Birthday	p. 62
On Being Lead Into St. James Church, Shere	p. 63
Poem Written On A Cigarette Box	p. 64
This Darkened London	p. 65
Paseo de Orson Welles	p. 66
You Will Know It When Comes, You Will Forget It When It's Over	p. 67
Guernica in Flames at the Picasso Museum, Barcelona	p. 68
Galway and the Smokeless Pubs of the New Millennium	p. 69
Into Europe by Rail-First the Daylight Pulled at Length	p. 70
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