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The ceremonies of longing / Sandra Kohler.
Van Pelt Library PS3561.O3577 C47 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kohler, Sandra, 1940-
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Women authors.
- American poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 77 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- In a poetic voice that is at once reflective and lively, Sandra Kohler explores the patterns of everyday life and the inner drama of imagination. Though these poems are mostly set amidst the familiarity of a suburban household and the family garden, this environment appears far from mundane as Kohler peels away the veneer of domestic tranquility to reveal a world busy with human passion and the rhythms of the earth. Nature is present at every turn, an ethereal twin, as the narrator's emotions take the form of cardinals in flight, a rushing river, or a potato sprouting in the dark.
- Contents:
- I. This Life
- This Life 3
- The Game 4
- As I Was 5
- Alba 6
- Night Music 7
- Love Poem 9
- Sweet 10
- Sunlight 11
- Staring 12
- Swimmers 13
- Scene from the New House 14
- Overnight 15
- Floaters 16
- Valentine 17
- Morning, the Fifth of July 18
- Distance 19
- Sleep Calls Me ... 20
- The Moment 21
- The Cure 22
- Displacement 23
- II. The Other Hour
- One Music 27
- Mother of Thousands 28
- Renovo 29
- Birds and Others 30
- Real Estate 32
- Envy 34
- Diaspora 35
- The Pond 37
- The End of the Gulf War 39
- The Aunts 40
- Divination 42
- Dreaming Jane Eyre 43
- Second Language 44
- After Arcadia 45
- Museum Piece 46
- Recapitulation 47
- Celebration 48
- Primary Colors 49
- The Other Hour 50
- III. Tuesday
- After 53
- The Lie 54
- Burden 55
- Augury 56
- Beasts 57
- Inverno 58
- Litany 59
- Seed 60
- Counterpoint 61
- Not My Own 62
- Frostlight 63
- It's a Wrap 64
- At the Grave 65
- Steps 66
- Tea 67
- Intimation 68
- Green 70
- Japanese Landscape 71
- Tuesday 72
- After Thanksgiving 73
- Sojourn 74
- Write 75.
- Notes:
- "Winner of the 2002 AWP award series in poetry."
- ISBN:
- 0822958309
- OCLC:
- 53323583
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