Night burial : poems /

"In Night Burial, Kate Bolton Bonnici mourns her mother's death from ovarian cancer by tracing the composition, decomposition, and recomposition of the maternal body. Opening with an epigraph from Julia Kristeva's "Stabat Mater," which recognizes the "abyss that opens u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bonnici, Kate Bolton, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fort Collins, Colorado : The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, [2020]
Temas:
Mothers and daughters > Poetry.
Grief > Poetry.
Mères et filles > Poésie.
Chagrin > Poésie.
Grief
Mothers and daughters
poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • I. Fall Risk
  • [mine eyes dry & cannot see have]
  • "corpses like night soil / get carted off"
  • it was a common night
  • household tales
  • morrow, morrow, valentine
  • witchspeak
  • burn permit
  • burnt offering
  • fall risk
  • coming, mama, t o carry
  • recurrence
  • the palace
  • "in the old time, they used to putt a penny in the dead persons mouth"
  • the child breaks a glass of milk
  • ii. ordinary time
  • "in your absence there are no mortal banquets."
  • measure of ordinary time
  • for my mother whose mother is ill
  • "let the quick then cast f orth the dead."
  • Blood lines
  • "she died
  • this was the way she died."
  • primer
  • iii. night burial
  • [quiet & you are not among the]
  • [look upon your servant]
  • [thanksgiving I sat with her]
  • [fled to the woods]
  • [my other grandmother has stopped sewing.]
  • [after the rains a path of needles,]
  • [just wear it]
  • [how to know someone is dying?]
  • [in the opera, Manon speaks]
  • [keen & cry out for the]
  • [my husband holds my hand]
  • [my mother fell into a sleep]
  • [for one minute]
  • [dhe left the room & she stopped breathing]
  • [enter Mary]
  • [daughters sing from the backseat]
  • [On foot my daughters aim stiff-arms, a Stop!]
  • [give me haint blue inside of which]
  • [when she came home]
  • [I am mad at you]
  • [you, she, we, I can't,]
  • [night burial, a winter sky, a winter ground]
  • [you lie here do]
  • [an ancient loop-someone]
  • [your mother dies.]
  • iv. the former object of my every thing
  • "for this daie your daughter hathe bene bothe alive and deade"
  • transcendental étude
  • gallery
  • primer
  • to lay sod on a grave
  • the former object of my everything
  • notes
  • acknowledgments

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