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New and selected poems / Marjory Wentworth ; foreword by Carol Ann Davis.
LIBRA PS3623.E58 A6 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wentworth, Marjory (Marjory Heath), 1958- author.
- Series:
- Palmetto poetry series
- The Palmetto poetry series
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 153 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- New and Selected Poems includes more than fifty poems from Marjory Wentworth's previous three collections, Noticing Eden, Despite Gravity, and The Endless Repetition of an Ordinary Miracle, plus twenty-eight new poems. This collection serves as a capstone to Wentworth's tenure as South Carolina poet laureate, a title she has held since 2003. This collection includes a foreword by the poet Carol Ann Davis, author of Psalm and Atlas Hour and assistant professor of English at Fairfield University. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- From Noticing Eden, 2003
- In the Dream of the Sea 3
- Barrier Island 5
- Carolina Umbra 6
- Wild Plums 8
- The Nest of Stars 9
- Beach Walk 10
- Lament 12
- Toward the Sea 14
- Hurricane Season 15
- How the Yellow Angels Hunger 17
- Core Banks, North Carolina 20
- Findhorn 21
- The Color of Rain 23
- River 24
- Irises 26
- Bamboo 27
- The Unkempt Garden 28
- Homecoming 29
- The Coming Light 31
- Near the Doorway 33
- From Despite Gravity, 2007
- Tangled 37
- Linthong 38
- Sand 41
- Strip Search 43
- Dancing Barefoot in Atlanta 44
- The Last Night 45
- Apparent Tranquility 47
- Slate 48
- Sierra Snow 50
- The Sound of Snow 51
- Newlyweds 52
- A Normal Life 53
- Japanese Landscape 55
- Spring 56
- On All Sides Water 58
- Sandur 60
- Despite Gravity 61
- From The Endless Repetition of an Ordinary Miracle, 2010
- What Shines 65
- What If 66
- What Passes 67
- What Remains 68
- Old Burial Hill 69
- Charleston Rooftops 71
- Boat People 73
- In Gaza's Berry Fields 75
- Nocturne 2006 77
- What the Shrine Wants 79
- Illuminata 80
- Nothing Can Contain You 82
- Pine Pitch 83
- Spaghetti 85
- My Quaker Grandmothers 87
- Stillborn 89
- Annunciation 90
- Seeking 92
- Spring Island, South Carolina 93
- New Poems
- Family Reunion 97
- The Christmas Apron 99
- Corene 100
- Easter Worry 101
- Intersection Where the Rain Begins 102
- Where a Mirage Has Once Been, Life Must Be 103
- When All the Branches Overlap 104
- A Place for You 105
- The Weight It Takes 107
- As Dreams Unwind 109
- The Top of the World 110
- Daybreak, John's Island, South Carolina 112
- Snow in the South 113
- Forgotten 115
- In Sorrow and Sunlight 116
- The Art of Memory 117
- Winter Light 119
- February Triptych 120
- The Stones Beneath Our Feet 121
- Summer Dirge 122
- Undertow 123
- Counting Scars 124
- Brainstorming 127
- A Sisyphean Task 129
- A Monstrous Terrible Story 130
- Rain Coming From a Bright Sky 134
- The Philosophy of Gardening 137
- Manacles 139
- Louisiana's Disappearing Chains 141
- Teen Wears Pet Bird Like a Hat 143
- Runaway Cow Tracked Down in Germany 144
- Police Say Roving Cows Drank Backyard Brews 146
- The Way Sound Travels 147
- In My Light Year 148.
- ISBN:
- 9781611173222
- 1611173221
- OCLC:
- 855779212
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