White sea : poems / Cleopatra Mathis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mathis, Cleopatra, 1947-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xiv, 81 pages : portrait ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, [2005]

Summary:

"Cleopatra Mathis . . . brandishes the gifts of a talented poet who has hit her stride."-"The New York Times Book Review"

"As long as we have Mathis' clarity of imagination, the intricacy and breadth of her engagement with the world and the depth of her meeting of others, we'll have the warmth to help us deal with our own centers of cold."-A.R. Ammons

Strong, unsentimentally emotional sixth collection set on the frigid shores of Provincetown.

Contents:

Salt xiii

The Source 3

Cotton 5

The Waiting 7

Catalpa 9

Want 11

Willful 13

Envoy 15

Death of Puzzle 17

Messenger 18

Same Old 19

White Sea 20

Disappearances 22

At Boris's on the Outer Beach 23

Linda's Poem 27

Again, Autumn 28

Called Back 29

The Sea Chews Things Up 36

The Release 37

White Morning 42

You Must Cross the Black River 43

In Woods 47

Cane 48

Burial 50

January 52

At Fourteen 54

The Old Question 56

Speech to the Self 57

Stanley and Elise 59

Stanley's First Death 61

You Wouldn't Say Goodbye 62

Death of a Gull 63

Moonsnail 65

Praise Him 67

The Herring Run 69

Stanley's Goodbye 71

Listen, Spirit 72

At Home 74

Vulture, Circling 76

Soul 77.

ISBN:

1932511164

1932511172

OCLC:

56421897