Living things : collected poems / Anne Porter ; foreword by David Shapiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porter, Anne, 1911-2011.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian poetry, American.

Physical Description:

xvii, 176 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hanover, N.H. : Zoland Books, [2006]

Summary:

"Living Things" contains all the poems in Porter's National Book Award Finalist collection, "An Altogether Different Language," plus forty-four new works. David Shapiro writes in his foreword, "Anne Porter's diction is as modest as that of William Carlos Williams or of a poet she nurtured as a houseguest for many years, James Schuyler. . . . She has the quality of paying attention to ultimate reality that Fairfield Porter, who painted her so often alone and with their five children, told me should be the conclusion of every sermon. . . . She is an American religious poet of stature who reminds us that the idea of the holy is still possible for us."" Living Things" is a book for any lover of fine poetry, but will be particularly inspiring and meaningful to Christians whose faith is strong, and would make a beautiful gift.

Contents:

Foreword to An Altogether Different Language xiv

Part 1 In Another World

A Famine Child 1

Saint Matthew's Weeds 2

The Icon 3

An Only Son 4

Adam's Fall 6

The Roofs of Paris 7

Attic Windows 8

Old in the City 10

Prophets 12

Emmett Kelly 14

The Winged Children 16

Summer Cottage 17

The Travel-Pictures 18

Noel 21

On a Maine Island 23

A Short Prayer 24

Signs and Wonders 25

A Song of Fear and Fire 27

A Safe Neighborhood 28

A Desert Grandchild 29

The Ermine Weasel 30

Terry Berrigan 31

Five Wishes 34

A Parade in the City 36

Three Birds 38

Boxwood 39

A Morning Dream 40

A Painter's Life 41

A Turtle's Shell 42

Burning 43

In Another World 44

A Plea for Mercy 45

The Song of the Wren 46

Stella Rapkowski 47

The Master of Mary of Burgundy 48

Susanna 51

After Psalm 137 53

Music 54

The Swallows' Flight 56

Part 2 An Altogether Different Language

Cradle Song II 61

In Holy Week 63

The Dream 64

The First of May 66

In a Country Hospital 67

Consider the Lilies of the Sea 68

Living Things 69

Los Desplazados 71

Refugee Servant 72

My Anastasia 73

A Tailor's Wife 80

The Pasture Rose 81

Lovers 82

Native Americans 83

For My Son Johnny 85

Therese 89

An Altogether Different Language 90

For Joshua, One Month Old 91

A Child at the Circus 92

A Short Testament 94

Wartime Sunday 95

From Denver to Albuquerque 96

A Year of Jubilee 97

A Night in Ireland 99

On the Three-hour Train Ride 101

Southwestern Mountains 103

Four Poems in One 105

The Neighboring Sea 107

On the Maine Islands 108

In Storm-watch Season 111

Song for the Town of Assisi 112

Farmyard by Moonlight 116

In Chartres 117

A List of Praises 121

Four Seasons Carol 123

Here on Earth 124

A Deposition 127

The Weihnachts-Historie 129

The Shortest Days 130

December 131

Cause of Our Joy 132

La Bella Notizia 134

St. John's Day 136

A Forest Pilgrimage 138

Christmas in Crakow 139

Winter Twilight 140

In Childhood 141

Getting up Early 142

Leavetaking 143

September-Weed 145

Looking at the Sky 146

A November Sunrise 147

Before the Frost 148

Red Sky at Night 149

Fire, and Torrential Rain 150

An Easter Lily 151

At the Shore 152

Oaks and Squirrels 153

Wild Geese Alighting on a Lake 154

Listening to the Crows 155

The Birds of Passage 156

The Wall 158

A Biography of Flowers 160

For the Two Katherines 161

The Pear Tree 163

When the Privet Blooms 164

On My Mother's Birthday 165

Another Sarah 166

House Lots 167

A Village Cat 168

La Transhumance 169

For David 170

La Courte Paille 171

Houseguests 172

The Ticket 173

Autumn Crocus 175.

Notes:

Contains new work as well as her previously published collection: An altogether different language : poems, 1934-1994.

Contains:

Porter, Anne, 1911-2011. Altogether different language.

ISBN:

1581952163

OCLC:

62093032

Publisher Number:

9781581952162