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Now the green blade rises / Elizabeth Spires.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.P554 N69 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spires, Elizabeth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 77 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [2002]
- Summary:
- Presents more than thirty poems by Maryland writer Elizabeth Spires on her mother's death and the theme of separation.
- Contents:
- The Cabin
- Dogwood
- Reprieve, Reprise
- Cemetery Reef
- White Curtain
- Ghazal
- Riddle
- My Mother's Doll
- "Chapel in the Woods"
- Anamnesis
- Now the Green Blade Rises
- Two Chairs on a Hillside
- Infant Joy
- The Rose
- The Faces of Children
- The Daughter of Snow
- Flight Back
- I Dreamed a Dream
- The Frame
- Like Water
- 1999
- The Beautiful Day
- Above the Pagoda
- Two Characters in Search of a Metaphor
- The Papermaker
- Bruise
- Silence
- Grass
- Triptych for Three Tenses
- Curio
- Rocko
- A Dream of Water
- "In Heaven It Is Always Autumn"
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0393051463
- 9780393051469
- OCLC:
- 49386192
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