Bending home : selected & new poems, 1967-1998 / Susan Griffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffin, Susan.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xi, 249 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [1998]

Summary:

Selecting all the major poetry from her more than 30 years of publishing, preeminent feminist writer and Pulitzer Prize nominee Susan Griffin demonstrates once again why she is a major force in American letters. In poems ranging from the comic to the tragic, from, Griffin maintains an essential element of domesticity as she addresses subjects as diverse as mothering, myth and history, sex, food, and filmmaking.

Contents:

The woman

Consummation

Bread

Revolution

She was twenty-three

Her sadness runs beside her like a horse

Love should grow up like a wild iris in the fields

Grenadine

Cinema realité

Fall

from Letter

Perversity

Archaeology of a lost woman: fragments

Mother and child

I sit

Daughter

Song

Chile

Torture

Green

Summer night

Deer skull

Knowledge of the body

Three shades of light on the windowsill

Three love poems

A story

Dream

Move

Door

Under

"My daughter is hungry"

"My child deep"

The perfect mother

The bad mother

Two, hers and mine

Our mother

Prayer for continuation

Beech

Atmosphere

Fields

I wake thinking of myself as a man

Born into a world knowing

What you wore that day

Absence

Nature

"Quiet, quiet heart"

"I wake to your gestures"

Confession

Amnesia

Happiness

Lake

Homoerotic poem

The sway

Small

A gangster movie

God

Gone

Stirring

Night

The group

The spell

Curve

She tries to reason it out

Thicket

Public opinion

To the far corners of fractured worlds

Faith

Retrieve

Hunger.

ISBN:

1556590873

1556590865

OCLC:

39078790