Claire : poems / Marly Youmans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Youmans, Marly.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 52 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2004.

Summary:

In her debut poetry collection, the award-winning novelist Marly Youmans puts her dazzling versatility on display. Claire shapes the complex stories of a woman, beginning with her second birth through the ice of a frozen lake and ending with an ascetic's winter baptism. Between these rich transformations of life in death, Claire -- a figure who appears throughout the book, both as a girl and as a woman -- turns in the light like a prism in a window. Through Claire, Youmans finds liberation in form -- freedom in another self.

Contents:

Snow House Stories 1

Claire 2

The Arabic Lesson 3

Rite: Six for the Fears 5

Arrowhead 6

Inside the Village Limits 7

Lawn Colonized by Orb Spiders 8

Children of Summer 9

Adirondack Camp 10

At the Glass Doors 12

Lethargy at Otter Lake 13

Missouri Stokes 14

Lady in a Tower, 1870 16

Ellen Cameron White 17

Letters from Elsewhere 21

Living in a Dead Friend's House 22

Narrative of a Buried Life 23

A Retreat 24

Croft with Cows 25

Sea Change 26

Windowmaker 27

Letter 28

In April 29

Becoming Landscape 30

After Rain 31

A Winter's Tale 32

Enchanted Story 34

Barbarians Among Us 35

Asked of a Sibyl 36

Claire Thinks of Edvard's Dreams 37

1. "The Lonely Ones"

2. "Self-portrait at 2:00 A.M."

About the Turn of the Leaf 39

Childbed 40

Presage 41

Abandon 42

Piano Rag 43

Upon the First Bathtub in Collins, Georgia 44

The Locomotive Song 45

History Report 47

Testament of the Paisley Loom-Workers 48

Fort Hays, Kansas 49

The Cherry Trees 50

Kateri Tekakwitha 51.

ISBN:

0807129011

080712902X

OCLC:

52347769