Because of the light : poems / by Roseann Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lloyd, Roseann.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

112 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Duluth, Minn. : Holy Cow! Press ; Saint Paul, Minn. : Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, 2003.

Summary:

Roseann Lloyd's new collection is a book written by a confident American poet at the height of her powers. Lloyd enters the lives of people on several continents, then creates poems that balance and juxtapose northern and southern light; lyric joy and reports of injustice; myths and stories, told to her by people she met on her travels. In poetic forms from western and eastern traditions-such as the ghazal, the prose poem-Lloyd writes of love, poverty, beauty, work, children, war, the life of the body and the spirit.

Roseann Lloyd's "War Baby Express" (Holy Cow! Press, 1996) won the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. A recipient of the Bush Foundation Fellowship, she lives in Minneapolis.

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Contents:

She Said 9

I Midsummer

The Midsummer Ghazals 13

Movement 20

A Summer Day 22

II Winter Dark

Resorting to Metaphor 27

Morketiden: The Dark Time 30

Recollect 31

A Woman of the North Talking 32

Another Gift of the Northern Abolitionists 33

Field Trip: Kids from the Treatment Center Visit the Art Institute 34

Sorrow Comes in Spades 36

Falling Means You Have the Chance to Learn to Walk Again 39

Massage 40

Ragged but Right 42

The Winter Room Had No Windows but It Filled Up With a Lemony Yellow Light 44

III In the Season of Chanterelles

In the Season of Chanterelles 49

Walking Along the River Bluff, We Glimpse a Whir of Red Wings in the Brush 51

Blind-Sided 52

Midsummer in the Midwest 54

A Day That Starts Out Gloomy Turns Out Brighter than Expected 56

Still Point 58

Windows: Fall Equinox 60

Rose Quartz 62

IV Winter Light

Winter Light 65

What to Do the First Morning the Sun Comes Back 67

I Fell in Love with the Tropics 68

You Don't Have To 71

Santa Clara Convent, Antigua, Guatemala 73

?Que Es? 74

Indigo 76

San Antonio Agua Calientes 78

How to Be Middle Class 80

A Dozen Reasons to Give Up Haggling over the Price of Weavings 82

Another View of Culture: She Explains Why She Loves Disney Cartoons 83

Poem on the Occasion of the Festival of the Immaculate Conception, Antigua, Guatemala, and the Confirmation of John Ashcroft as Attorney General of the U.S., 2001 84

In the Name of the Daughter 85

V Northern Sun

Natt og Dag: Return To Norway After 25 Years 89

White Nights: Another Woman of the North Talking 90

Summer Dinner Party in Oslo 92

We Didn't Have the Words Then 94

Lying Down in Public Places 96

The Color of Hills and Water 98

All I Knew about Wales Was That Grandpa Loved Ponies 99

The Woman They Found in Siberia 102.

ISBN:

093010045X

OCLC:

52341697