As for dream / Saskia Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Saskia, 1967-2023.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

63 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

As for dream : poems

Place of Publication:

Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [2001]

Summary:

A series of brief, haunting lyrics and prose fragments, the poems in "As for Dream" hover in suspension between states of consciousness or being. Hamilton's verse both illustrates and investigates the human experience at many different intervals: as we wake from the dream world, as we meet the loss or disruption of our desires, as we tend to the ill, and as we die. Once we cross those boundaries, does the self remain intact? These poems record and question moments when we slip from the casing of the body and the social world and try to make our way back, or find we cannot.

Contents:

The Song in the Dream 3

Late Winter Rain 4

In the Hospital 5

Hunger 6

End of Summer 7

Dream at Eighty-Four 8

At Eighty-Four 9

In the Garden 10

The House between Two Meadows 11

At Eighty-Four 12

His Face 13

There Is No Greater Love 14

Sorrow in the Body 15

His Wife's Death 16

A Vigil 17

It Fled 18

Someone Else 19

A Story 20

Weight 23

Early Winter 24

Forget 25

You Know the Way 26

Winter Rain 27

Waiting 28

For Want Of 29

Slow Train 30

For Want Of 31

Pastoral 32

After Catullus 33

Another Stupid Party 34

The Next Day 35

Legible Mystery 36

Late Winter 37

Listen 38

Last Errand 39

Dusk 40

Work 43

November 44

Reverence 45

What's Past 46

The Apology 47

The Kiss 48

The Embrace 49

Waiting for the News 50

In the City 51

Still 52

Listen 53

Work 54

Late Winter 56

Bruges 57

The First Evening 58.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 61)

ISBN:

1555973167

OCLC:

46485364