The art of loss : poems / by Myrna Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Myrna, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loss (Psychology)--Poetry.

Loss (Psychology).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 100 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, [2001]

Summary:

The title of this collection states the central theme -- the losses that accrue over time. This particular poetic persona deals with these losses: the loss of faith; of loved ones; of innocence -- losses of both a personal, and of a larger, historical nature -- losses that simultaneously deplete and elevate.

Contents:

Simulacrum 3

I Camera Obscura

From the Kitchen 7

Waiting for Daddy 8

Home Movie 10

Among Monuments 11

Pyrotechnicalities 13

Rosalie 14

Michael Mourning 15

What the Season Spares 16

St. Valbert's Revisited 18

Timed Exposures 20

A Common Primer 22

No Sweet Source 23

Small Comfort 25

So Many Voices, So Many Names 28

Camera Obscura 30

My Mother's Room 32

II Penitential

Sisters in the Flesh 37

Tomato Pickers, Summer, 1956 39

Penitential 41

The Lost Boy 43

View from the Bell Tower 45

In the Parish of Padre Pio 47

Holy Day in San Giovanni 49

III This Mortal Cargo

What the Sexton Said 53

Sonnet for Sarah 55

Mrs. Redish Regales the Press 56

Your Last Mistress 58

The Way of All Flesh 60

The Third Spring After 62

The Amazing Vanishing Grace 63

IV Light, Apprehended

The Art of Loss, 1498 67

Madonna Under a Baldachin 69

Annotation on Light 71

Into the Blue 73

The Hollow Heart 75

The Tub 77

V The Temporal World

Otus Asio: Number 280 in the Audubon Society Field Guide 81

Winesaps 83

Its Own Reply 84

Brainstorm 85

In Extremis 87

Taraxacum Officinale 89

Letters Never Mailed from Provence 91

Evening at Abbingdon 93

Dining in the University's Medieval Union We Elevate the Bus Boy 95

Hotel Orvieto 96

Only Lovers As Chaste 97

Words for My Mother 99.

ISBN:

0870135805

OCLC:

45756061