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An unkindness of ravens : poems / by Meg Kearney ; foreword by Donald Hall.

Van Pelt Library PS3611.E2 U55 2001
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kearney, Meg.
Series:
A. Poulin, Jr. new poets of America series ; vol. 23.
The A. Poulin, Jr. new poets of America series ; no. 23
Language:
English
Physical Description:
77 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Rochester, N.Y. : BOA Editions, 2001.
Summary:
In "An Unkindness of Ravens," Meg Kearney's poems weave voices of estrangement and redemption: mothers, daughters, lovers of gin and dead things. In the middle poems, the protagonist confronts "Raven": a figure of guises and disguises, revealing the speaker's fears and angst. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet Donald Hall has written the Foreword.
Meg Kearney is the Associate Director of the National Book Foundation. She was the recipient of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and "New York Times" fellowships and received the Alice M. Sellers Academy of American Poets Prize in 1998. She lives in New York City.
Contents:
An Unkindness of Ravens
Longing 17
Gin 18
Anything Else 19
A Therapist Invites Me to Visit My Inner Child 20
On Second Thought 21
Loneliness 23
Family Vacation 24
Antidote 25
The Prodigal Daughter 27
Home Movies 29
Silence 30
New York 31
The Trouble with Creation 32
Bash Bish Falls 33
Tea 34
Learning to Speak 36
Swan Song 37
Mrs. Plum, Outside the Library, with the Candlestick 38
Fortune-Teller 39
Redemption Arcade
Curse 43
Spending the Evening with Raven 44
What She Told Me 45
Dreaming of Raven 46
Redemption Arcade 47
Martini Angel 48
Encounter 49
What the Dream Reveals to Him 50
Adoptive Measures
Love Is a Form of Recklessness 53
La Belle Dame sans Merci 55
The Prodigal Mother 56
Violet 57
She Tries to Go to Confession 58
What It's Like 59
Sculpture of Gulls 61
14th Street 62
Why God Asked Solomon the Question, and Not Me 64
Bonsai 65
Prologue to True Love: Chopin's Waltz in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2 67
Doppelganger 68
Falling in Love at the Aquarium 69
Ticket 70
Elegy for the Prodigal Mother 71
Creed 72.
ISBN:
1929918097
192991816X
OCLC:
45890408

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