The palace of bones / Allison Eir Jenks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenks, Allison Eir.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

viii, 74 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Winner of the fifth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, The Palace of Bones by Allison Eir Jenks is an often stark and startling vision of the way we live, the places we inhabit, and the relics we make to comfort ourselves.

Haunted by a quiet, unquenchable longing, Jenks expertly and calmly guides the reader through a vivid dreamscape in this full-length collection of poems. The Palace of Bones was selected by final judge and Pulitzer Prize-winner Carolyn Kizer. At once dark in its vision and light in its tone, this remarkable book is its author's self-confident invitation for us to join her in a world she knows intimately and has made almost familiar if not entirely safe. The Palace of Bones is a stunning debut.

Contents:

Forgive Us 1

Black Magic 3

Waiting 5

The Palace of Bones 6

The Prisoner 8

The Visited House in Monaghan 9

Boy of Sea 10

In Search of a Brother 12

Night Train from Barcelona 15

Canvas 17

After the Parade 20

Underwater Grave 22

Transfiguration of the Golden Bird 24

Heaven 26

A Place We Briefly Lived 29

Letters from Our Fathers 30

Away 32

Home 33

The Little Red Schoolhouse 34

Different Ideas of Honor 36

Stained Dresses 38

Refugee 40

Lament 43

Unpolished Houses 44

The Burial of Two Strangers 46

War Tribes 49

Old Soldiers 52

Sleepwalking 54

The Neighbor's Will 55

Painting the Dead 57

Exit 59

Like Silk 61

Blackstone Street 62

The Church of St. Sulspicious 63

The Man at Her Window 65

The Squirrel 67

Afterlife 69

The Habit 70.

ISBN:

0821414232

0821414240

OCLC:

47289306