An Open Book (poetry collection)

An Open Book

Author	Orson Scott Card
Language	English
Genre	Poetry
Publisher	Subterranean Press
Publication date	2004
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	94 pp
ISBN	1-931081-93-X
OCLC	56352929

An Open Book (2004) is a collection of poems by Orson Scott Card.

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

See also

• List of works by Orson Scott Card
• Orson Scott Card

External links

• About the book An Open Book from Card's website