Channel / Barbara Jordan ; with an introduction by Molly Peacock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jordan, Barbara, 1949-

Series:

Barnard new women poets series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xv, 61 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, [1990]

Summary:

Vivid and evocative in its use of language, 'Channel' is a complex set of meditations on the natural world and on the sacred. Forests, hardens, and wilderness become part of metaphysical landscape as the poet transforms the outer world into an inner one.

Contents:

I The Discovery Room

The Discovery Room 3

Orion 4

Collecting the Elements 5

"A Skull Enwalled Garden" 8

Bruegel's Crows 10

Poem for German Painters 11

The Cannibals of Autumn 12

Web 13

Shell Pond Woods 14

Real Places 15

Genesis 18

Early Evening 19

Perspective 20

An Act of Faith 21

II Tutelary Poems 23

III Channel

Channel 39

Poem 40

Titan Myth 41

Airplane 44

Thunderhead 45

We All Have Many Chances 46

Wall Painting 47

An Obsidian Resolve I Had 48

Cupid, Death, and the Beyond 49

Vespers 50

Walpurgisnacht 51

Philosopher's Walk, Heidelberg 52

To England 53

All of One Mind 54

Tropism 56

1486 58.

ISBN:

080706808X :

0807068098

OCLC:

20294904