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Havoc : new and selected poems / Linda Stern Zisquit.

Van Pelt Library PS3576.I576 H38 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Zisquit, Linda.
Standardized Title:
Poems. Selections
Language:
English
Genre:
Poetry.
Physical Description:
xiii, 181 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Rhinebeck, New York : The Sheep Meadow Press, [2013]
Contents:
From Ritual Bath 1993
Green 17
Summer at War 18
Eve 20
The Peony and the Ant 21
While Three Men Sit in the Next Room 22
Ethics of the Fathers 23
Morning Exercise 24
Burning the Bridges 25
Alive 29
Choose 30
Dead Center 31
Legends of the Bible 33
Daughter of Men 34
In Hebrew the Word Compassion is Plural for Womb 35
Toward 36
Elul 37
Daniel Park 38
A Beginning 39
Posit 40
Recovery 41
Istehar Returning 42
Mandrake 43
Mt. Ardon 46
Ritual Bath 49
The Tree 50
His Glory 51
In the Garden 52
Living in History 53
From Unopened Letters 1996
Apprehension of Beauty 57
Unopened Letters 58
The World As Seen Before Falling/"What was once" 62
A Modern Midrash 63
Amnon 64
Shield 65
Double Note 66
After Years of Feasting and No Sacrifice 67
Latrun 68
Master 69
Preserves 70
A Simple Man 71
Also 72
A Created Life 73
Hide & Seek 75
Before Longing 76
Bottom Line 77
Rescue 78
May 79
At Dark 80
Riddle 81
Another Fire 82
Logic 83
Beneficent Law 84
A Word Before the Last, About Loss 85
Coming to Terms 86
Like Speech 88
Vertical 89
The Watcher 90
The Table 93
The Sense of an Ending 95
The Way Back 96
Body Shop 98
After "Swallow" 99
It's About Time 100
"Blue is Distance" 102
From The Face in the Window 2004
Verse/How to Resist Temptation 107
K'desha 108
Dream 109
Those With a Secret/Ashes 110
1962 111
No Sign/The Door 114
Blind 115
Calcium/Speck 116
Convalescent Home 117
The World Moving 118
"I cannot speak to you" 119
"In the dream just before waking" 120
"Six months before the first stroke" 121
"Remember the day" 122
"She only worsened" 123
"Look, she's sleeping now" 124
"I'm not home, my mother" 125
"Oh the habit of acquisition" 126
"In the Vitas Hospice House" 127
"Morning again" 128
"She opened her eyes" 129
"Was that you, Ma" 130
"I've told the story of her dying" 131
"Why didn't I bring a sweater?" 132
"Four weeks have passed now" 133
"One day maybe" 134
"So the concentrated mourning" 135
"In a painting by Francis Bacon"/"The lines are moving" 136
"Nineteen lines" 137
"When the sexual life" 138
"I'm wondering why I thought" 139
"I've invited them all" 140
Thefts of Inheritance 141
Snake 142
He always made a lot of noise 143
Field Notes 144
Feed the Enemy 145
Snow 146
Bell 148
Airmail 149
New Poems 2003-2012
Ghazal-Mazal 152
Passage 153
Remains 154
Line of Defense 156
Beauty & Sanctity 157
And Harm Awaits Me 158
Sound Advice 159
Song 160
Everything's Falling into Place 161
Listen 162
Between 164
Or 165
The Revelation/Ship 166
Panic 167
The Wave 168
Dream Ghazal 169
Hand 170
Me 171
Routine 172
Slowness 174
Havoc 175
Return From Elsewhere 176.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781937679149
1937679144
OCLC:
818143898

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