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Kneeling Orion : poems / by Kate Barnes ; woodcuts by Mary Azarian.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.A6812 K58 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnes, Kate, 1932-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New England--Poetry.
- New England.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 153 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : David R. Godine, 2004.
- Summary:
- In her first book since Where the Deer Were, Kate Barnes probes and penetrates more deeply and more profoundly into her special world of friendships, of rural Maine, of seasons, and of lives slowly, inexorably coming to an end. This selection of her strongest work from the past decade displays a poet at the height of her power- compassionate, compelling, and possessed of an ear for words, images, and rhythms that is almost pitch perfect. Like Frost, Barnes is a deceptively simple poet. Her narrative verse partakes of an old tradition: she tells a story. But beneath the story are life lessons, strictures taught by her parents (Elizabeth Coatsworth and Henry Beston), the harsh climate of New England, and the necessities of living a life alone, but without loneliness. What the reader comes away with is a sense of connection - with the past, with the earth, with her friends, and with the human condition superbly defined.
- Contents:
- The Story She Knew
- The Kitchen Window 15
- Old Roses 17
- Henry (Sheahan) Beston 19
- American Women 20
- The Farm 23
- On the Highway Bridge 25
- The Porch 26
- A Wet Evening 27
- Wishes 28
- Extrapolation 29
- Under the Rosemary 31
- The Day's One Page 33
- Runes 34
- Prospero's Cell 35
- Last Lines 36
- You Know What I Mean
- The Tree Ferns 41
- Elizabeth and Sally 42
- The Old Woman's Story 44
- To a Skylark 46
- El Consentido 48
- Hingham 50
- Ribe 52
- Leaving 55
- "In the Realm of the Mothers" 56
- A Wedding 58
- Other Nations 59
- Sisters: The Point of a Pin 61
- Knowing the Goddess Epona
- To the Goddess Epona on a Snowy March Day 66
- Conversation 67
- Trotsky Ghazals 68
- Ver 69
- The End of March 70
- Easter Morning 72
- A Party 73
- Aye Waukin', O! 74
- Cabin Tankas 76
- Sometimes 78
- Early Summer 79
- Trash Roses 80
- A Summer Night 81
- Wanting to See a Moose 82
- Twentieth-Century Pleasures 83
- Hunting Season 85
- New Year, 2000 86
- Why Do You Ask?
- Why Do You Ask? 89
- Restaurant Ghazal 90
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Horse 91
- Rocking 95
- The Island of Honey 96
- Lines Beginning with an Anacreontic Fragment 97
- Miklos Radnoti, 1909-1944 98
- The Harrier 99
- Asters 100
- Potnia: The Lady of the Labyrinth 102
- "The Rhetoric of Fiction"
- Chapter 1 The Lion 107
- Chapter 2 Bodies 109
- Chapter 3 The Leaves 110
- Chapter 4 Early Sunlight 111
- Chapter 5 The Night Wind 113
- Chapter 6 The Ear of Night 114
- Chapter 7 The Rat in the Wall 116
- Chapter 8 The Glass Breast 117
- Chapter 9 The Past 119
- Chapter 10 In the Corner 120
- Chapter 11 Inside the Engraving 122
- Chapter 12 The Dining Car 123
- Kneeling Orion
- Sebastian 129
- Hearing You're Ill 131
- Riverside 132
- Riding Out 134
- Song 135
- Wanting to Have a Child 136
- Susan 137
- For So Long 139
- Teaching Dreams 140
- The Poetry Meeting 142
- Lion 143
- Morning 144
- Broad and Bright 146
- The Last Week of May 148
- Hector 149
- In a Dream 150
- Downstairs 152.
- ISBN:
- 1567922554
- OCLC:
- 52509432
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