Precipitates : poems / by Debra Kang Dean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dean, Debra Kang, 1955-

Series:

American poets continuum series ; v. 81.

American poets continuum series ; no. 81

Language:

English

Physical Description:

95 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, 2003.

Summary:

Employing some of the link-and-shift techniques of the Japanese renku, these poems repeatedly allude to -major themes in "Ecclesiastes," while speaking, under the influence of the Buddhist "Heart Sutra," to the hunger for perfection or the desire to forestall change that keeps us attached to the world. Weather serves as a metaphor for our headlong fall into aging and death.

Debra Kang Dean has published two collections of poetry: "Back to Back "(NCWN, 1997), which won the Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition; and "News of Home "(BOA, 1998), which won the New England Poetry Club's Sheila Margaret Motton Award. A contributing editor for "Tar River Poetry," she lives in West Peterborough, New Hampshire, with her husband Brad and two cats.

Contents:

Weather Report 11

Patchwork of Selvage (January-April 1999) 13

Heart Sutras

Hail 28

The Eulogy 29

Soap 31

Customs 33

Kyrielle 35

Strays 36

Arrival 38

"Crazy" 40

Taproot 42

Ordinary Moons 44

Adam's Apple 46

Patchwork of Selvage (May-August 1999) 49

Traces

i. Reflected light 65

ii. Suspended 66

iii. In jest 67

iv. Kudzu 68

v. Two fishes 69

vi. Wei 70

vii. Tui shou 71

viii. Empty hands 72

ix. For Emily 73

x. Reprise 74

Patchwork of Selvage (September-December 1999) 75.

ISBN:

1929918437

OCLC:

52601183