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The penultimate suitor : poems / by Mary Leader.
Van Pelt Library PS3562.E18 P46 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leader, Mary, 1948-
- Series:
- Iowa poetry prize
- The Iowa poetry prize
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 76 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- In The Penultimate Suitor, Mary Leader strips away comfortable layers of poetic self-protection to arrive at a position of acute emotional self-conflagration. Each poem turns upon and returns to the infuriating and glorious correlations between love and art. Learning to love, learning to make art, trying to make beauty, trying to be a beauty -- all these efforts call for passionate explorations in the schools of art and love.
- Contents:
- I. Madrigal 3
- Rowboat on the Seine 4
- For the Love of Gerald Finzi 5
- Man in Top Half of Dutch Door 13
- II. Sequence as Opposed to Series 17
- Love 22
- Series as Opposed to Sequence 23
- Art 34
- Parting of Su Wu & Li Ling 35
- III. Album of Eight Landscapes & Eight Poems 39
- Impetus 45
- Poesia 46
- Malleable Day 47
- Depiction of a Game as if by Pieter Brueghel the Elder 48
- Portrait of Fritz Kreisler 49
- IV. Heavy Roses 53
- Snow on the Skylight All Afternoon 62
- White Sands 65
- from The Book of Brilliant Accoutrements 67
- Orange Rose & Blue Reader 70
- Letters 73
- Skin 75.
- ISBN:
- 0877457654
- 0877457484
- OCLC:
- 45460810
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