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The house of affection : poems / by Wendy Wood Kwitny.
Van Pelt Library PS3611.W589 H68 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kwitny, Wendy Wood.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 119 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Riverdale-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Sheep Meadow Press ; [Hanover, N.H.] : Distributed by University Press of New England, [2004]
- Summary:
- House of Affection is a book of lyrics and prose poems on love, on the approaching death and afterdeath of a loved husband and on the birth of his child. "What's new?" you might ask. What's new is the beauty of Wendy Wood's poetry, the richness of life that is in her work and precision of her language and observation. Death, love, birth and motherhood open her to the intense spirituality of her marvelous, everyday experience. Her poetry in its many modes consoles us with a unique grace; her artistry does not sadden us but lifts our spirits.
- Contents:
- I turn my head or hide it in my blouse
- House of affection
- Piano
- January 20, 2000
- Ordinary time
- The uncountable tears of the world
- In the lower room, in solitude
- Planet cancer
- Quatrains
- September 4, 2000
- You are suddenly pushed
- For Susanna
- Hop on Pop
- When winter began
- Beyond the trees
- Synecdoche
- The spirituality of things
- Unreal estate
- Ice cream
- In America
- October 27, 2000
- Poem
- Near haiku
- An ordinary day
- Woody and Peter
- The opening
- One mourning
- Tomorrow
- Thanksgiving night, 1998
- In spite
- This sadness will not be finished
- November 26, 2000
- The birth of Peter
- True stories
- You have been dropped from the sky
- A friend once said
- 19 July
- After talking to the doctor
- Doing the dishes
- Cuddebackville
- By the time you get to the hospital
- Most days my mother
- It is your forty-first birthday
- We live on a quiet street
- When you are driving
- When your husband dies
- Jon had lost
- How do I write the empty rooms
- I wish I could tell you
- What about the other
- The week before he died
- Without him, there is
- Jon wouldn't have written
- Today I took the children
- A private swim club
- According to our vows
- When I lifted Woody
- So many people carry
- I walk around Princeton
- In order to survive as an animal
- You walk one long beige hall
- Black words
- You don't lose him once
- Since Jon's death
- Before Jon got too
- The afternoon at first unfolded
- Margaret loads the trunk
- The morning
- Evening's chair
- Gray poem
- Looking through eyelashes, I
- Looking through eyelashes, II
- Tin landscape
- This way to the egress
- Refractions
- Verge of silence
- View
- February 29
- What they recalled in two versions
- The bachelor room
- The transient bride
- Four winters
- To a friend on the occasion of his fortieth birthday
- The Wendy house
- A brief history
- Love among the cynics
- Pregnant pause
- True love
- The mountain.
- ISBN:
- 1931357145
- OCLC:
- 54372416
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