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Without a philosophy : poems / Elizabeth Seydel Morgan.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.O828 W58 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morgan, Elizabeth Seydel, 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 67 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Elizabeth Seydel Morgan's Without a Philosophy explores the times when a clear solution does not exist, when we find ourselves in "those darknesses between," where life appears nothing like certainty. In poems about the illness and death of a beloved man, the speaker asks the unanswered questions that are inevitably raised by the experience of grief, about the "impossibility of gauging distances" between souls. We see a life without pure knowledge of the truth as "we're either learning more each day / Or slantedly misled." Yet, there is affirmation here of a life of the imagination and a life of love.
- Contents:
- The Impossibility of Gauging Distances
- Without a Philosophy 3
- Diagnosis, after Dickinson 4
- Bombing Yugoslavia 5
- The Well 6
- Unanswered Questions 7
- Drawing Lesson: Outline and Edge 8
- Watering 9
- Shutters 10
- Walking across the Border 11
- The Glutton of Grief 13
- The Present 14
- December 2001 15
- Driving Alone 16
- Restart 17
- Imaginary Therapy 18
- The Impossibility of Gauging Distances 19
- Clean-Up 20
- Watching the Weather Channel
- Watching the Weather Channel 23
- E-mail to Odessa 24
- The Dry Years 25
- Cow Bone Clearing 26
- Everybody's Coming in for the Winter 27
- Late Winter, Starling and Apricot 28
- Log 29
- Suddenly the City Swept the Street 30
- Stingy 31
- Flasher 33
- Redbud, Dogwood and Crow 34
- Transient
- Transient 37
- The Melancholy Tailor 38
- You, Archie Ammons 40
- How Space Travel Affects the Aging 41
- Singapore Art Museum in the Rain 43
- Make Yourself at Home 44
- Seven Ages of Man: Saturday, Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles 46
- The Person behind Me Is Talking in Numbers 48
- The Californian 50
- Black Animals 51
- The Last Paintings of Manet 52
- Euripides' Cave 53
- Prejudice 54
- The Birthday 55
- Tamed 56
- Trampoline 57
- On Reading Szymborska's "Starvation Camp near Jaslo" 58
- Rescue Me 60
- Caretaker 62
- Stealing Grace 65
- Blessing the Watersnakes 66.
- ISBN:
- 9780807132296
- 0807132292
- 9780807132302
- 0807132306
- OCLC:
- 76792083
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