Like a beggar / Ellen Bass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bass, Ellen.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xii, 73 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, 2014.

Summary:

"Ellen Bass brings a deft touch as she continues her ongoing interrogations of crucial moral issues of our times, while simultaneously delighting in endearing human absurdities. From the start of Like a Beggar, Bass asks her readers to relax, even though 'bad things are going to happen,' because the 'bad' gets mined for all manner of goodness. Ellen Bass's most recent book of poems, The Human Line, was named a 'Notable Book of the Year' by the San Francisco Chronicle. In addition, she is co-author of the million-seller Courage to Heal. She lives in Santa Cruz, California"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Relax 3

Saturn's Rings 5

Reading Neruda's "Ode to the Onion" 7

At the Padre Hotel in Bakersfield, California 9

Nakedness 10

Moth Orchids 14

Ode to Repetition 15

Looking at a Diadegma insulare Wasp under a Microscope 16

How I Became Miss America 18

French Chocolates 20

Women Walking 21

Jazz 23

Cold 24

More 25

Deceiving the Gods 26

The Beginning of the End 27

Pleasantville, New Jersey, 1955 28

The Morning After 30

What Did I Love 31

Bottom Line 33

Ode to the Heart 34

Neighbor 35

Ode to Invisibility 36

Ordinary Sex 38

Ode to Boredom 39

Flies 41

Moonlight 42

Ode to the Fish 43

Waiting for Rain 44

The World Has Need of You 46

The Last Week 47

Morning 48

Walking by Circle Market Late at Night 49

Ode to the God of Atheists 51

Restaurant 52

Prayer 53

Boat, Vietnam 54

Ode to Dr. Ladd s Black Slit Skirt 55

Soixante-Neuf 57

Ode to the First Peach 58

The Muse of Work 60

Cheetah 62

Their Naked Petals 63

Another Story 65

When You Return 67

Let's 69.

ISBN:

9781556594649

155659464X

OCLC:

858603168