Time's body / Kathleen Wall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wall, Kathleen, 1950-

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

86 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Regina : Hagios Press, 2005.

Summary:

Kathleen Wall's second collection propels the reader into a music of clear, lyrical richness. Time's Body is at once refined and elemental, the voice both melodic and full of wit. Again and again we find ourselves in the powerful present, listening to a chord or pausing in a garden where suddenly the flow of time is glimpsed with precision and clarity. Here is a mature poet at the height of her powers, showing us, virtually line by line, that each moment in our lives has extraordinary implications.

Contents:

The Painter Sings

Playing Chopin Near an Open Window 10

First French Suite: Sarabande 11

Second French Suite: Gavotte 12

Practicing Mozart's Piano Sonata in A 13

Aphony 14

The Silence of Speaking Hands 15

Landscapes with Absent Figure 16

About Surfaces 18

Stilled Life 19

Nine Meditations on Transparency 20

Schooling a Daughter

Whale Song 24

Snails 25

Caterpillars 26

Forcing Narcissus Bulbs 28

Correspondence with a daughter studying the history of art 30

The On-Line Blind Date Poems

Doomed Uncle 36

Assuage 37

The Mid-Date Lecture 38

Forbidden to Say the Word "Desire" 40

Mammogram 41

The Curve of Time 46

The Woman in Grey 47

Stone upon Stone 49

The Blind Date's Meditations on Light 51

Portraits and Elegies

Daughter as Charon 56

The Blaze of Self 58

The Time of Trees and Clocks 60

Elegy 62

Inheritance 63

Prairie Ariadne 66

Requiem 70

Origami Cranes 73

Visiting the Blind 75

Time's Body

Opening Time 78

Time Travel 79

Fictions of Time 81

Weeds 83

Time's Body 85.

ISBN:

0973556749 :

OCLC:

59338910