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Before Our Eyes : New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017 /
A major new collection from the winner of the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetryBefore Our Eyes gathers more than thirty new poems by Eleanor Wilner, along with representative selections from her seven previous books, to present a major overview of her distinguished bo...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Acknowledgment; NEW POEMS (2011-2017); I: Fair is foul, and foul is fair; When Vision Narrows to a Single Beam of Light; Tracking; The Aquarium; Underworld; The Photographer on Assignment; Parable of the Eyes; Elegy in Glass and Stone; Daedalus, the Exile, Thinks of His Son; Under the Table; Blue Reflection; The Phoenix Reflects on Its Peculiar Situation; Turning; II: An Answering Music; In Memoriam; Wingspan; Homage; Another Allegory of the Cave; Sowing; An Answering Music to Lines by Sam Hamill; Endings, from a Verse by Gwendolyn Brooks
- To Think of How ColdGnawed Bone, Covered Bridge; Writing in Sand While Walking in Walt's Footprints; III: Lifelines; Bird's-Eye View, Close-up, a Retrospective; What the Kite Sees; Intimations; Moonlit Wake; Shells; Unmoved; For the First Time; Before Our Eyes; The Uses of What Is Hollow; Ars Poetica, 2017; Listen; FROM TOURIST IN HELL (2010); History as Crescent Moon; Magnificat; In a Time of War; The Show Must Go On; Establishment; Saturday Night; Encounter in the Local Pub; What Loves, Takes Away; Voices from the Labyrinth: Minos, Ariadne, Daedalus, Minotaur
- FROM THE GIRL WITH BEES IN HER HAIR (2004)Everything Is Starting; Field of Vision; What Narcissus Gave the Lake; Moon Gathering; "Don't look so scared. You're alive!"; This Straw and Manure World; Just So Story; Found in the Free Library; The Girl with Bees in Her Hair; Be Careful What You Remember; FROM REVERSING THE SPELL, NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (1993-1996); Trümmerfrauen (The Rubble-Women); Middle-Class Vantage; Facing into It; On Ethnic Definitions; Of a Sun She Can Remember; The Messenger; Up Against It; FROM OTHERWISE (1993); Night Fishing in the Sound
- Being as I Was, How Could I Help . . .The Muse; The Bird in the Laurel's Song; Ume: Plum; Bat Cave; Rhapsody, with Rain; FROM SARAH'S CHOICE (1989); Reading the Bible Backwards; Sarah's Choice; The Last Man; Miriam's Song; Postscript; Classical Proportions of the Heart; Conversation with a Japanese Student; High Noon at Los Alamos; FROM SHEKHINAH (1984); Emigration; Without Regret; Ars Poetica; The World Is Not a Meditation; The Fourth David; My Mother's Portrait; Labyrinth; In medias res; Ex libris; FROM MAYA (1979); Landing; Unstrung; Bailing Out: A Poem for the Seventies; Epitaph
- Iphigenia, Setting the Record StraightEast of the Sun, West of the Moon; Natural History; maya; The Round Fish; Notes