Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight : Poems /
""A polished poet of extraordinary skill ... Levine is caught between wholehearted love of the world's beauty and sorrow at its unavoidable misery and suffering.""--Library JournalWith an astonishing grasp of language and detail, Julia Levine enacts a visceral, lyric experie...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
LSU Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Contents; At the Hog Island Oyster Company; I: ruthless furnace; St. Augustine, Florida; A Week of Storms; Heat Wave on the Children's Unit; Instead of Orchids or an Elegy of Swans; Strolling in Late April; On the Dementia Floor; After Visiting Your Mother, We Drive to the Rifle Range; Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight; II: locomotive of the Lord; Netherland; Post-Surgery Narratives in Triptych; In One of Ten Thousand Versions; In Another Version, I Have a Child with God; In a Later Version; In Another Version, I Play Gin Rummy with Satan.
- All Night You Ask the Children of the World to Forgive YouIII: magnitude; At the Zoo; The Viewing; The First Spring Since You Died; Now and Then; I Tell My Dead Father a Secret; Instruments of Loss and Wind; Letter to My Newly Widowed Mother; IV: risking delight; Poem Ending with an Unanswered Question; Adultery; you tell me the end; Inheritance; In the Real Paradise; Menarche; When the Door Between Worlds Finally Opened; The Raccoon; We Sit in a Beached Rowboat; Leave-Taking; Eventually; V: music despite everything; Tahoe Wetlands; Tahoe City, 1988; Ode to Fruit Flies; Songbird.
- Yes to the Youth at an Outdoor ConcertGarden Party as the Prow of a Small Ship Traveling; Variations on Rupture and Repair: Horse; Interlude; Variations on Rupture and Repair: Cottage; In Praise of What Remains; Notes.