Bartram's garden / Eleanor Stanford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanford, Eleanor Mae, author.

Series:

Carnegie Mellon poetry

Carnegie Mellon poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

82 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Eleanor Stanford is the author of another poetry collection. The Book of Sleep (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008) and a memoir, História, História: Two Years in the Cape Verde Islands (Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, 2013). She lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband and three sons. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Nursery

The Apiary 9

At the Steel Pier 11

Urban Renewal 12

Letdown 16

Brava, fogo, corpo, lua 17

Sete Portas, Salvador 19

Agua de Beber 21

Children 22

2 Flora

Bartram's Garden 25

Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) 28

Red Horsechestniu (Aesculus x earned) 29

Smoothleaf Elm (Ulmus minor) 30

Invention for Vuvuzela and Trumpet Flower 31

Cashew 32

Ultrasound 34

In Memoriam 37

Dawn Redwood 38

The Mangrove 39

3 Fauna

Alzheimer's Pantoum 43

Ornithological Autobiography 45

Brazil, Imaginary Island 48

Instant Message from Salavdor, Bahia 49

The Poem I Meant to Write 50

Firefly 51

American Bittern (Botaurus lentighwsus) 52

Windows 54

4 The Vegetable Plot

Harvest: Midsummer 59

On a Line by Petrarch 60

Crabapple (Mains coronaria) 61

Ode to Bly's Translations of Neruda 62

South Dakota Ghazal 64

Two Common Daffodils (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) 66

Parsnips 68

5 The River Trail

I'm held by nothing, I hold on to nothing, I belong to nothing 71

Driving to the Shore with My Father 72

Invention for Cavaquinho and Pedal Steel 73

Invention of the Moon 75

Letter to Laura from Arembepe 76

Itapua: Footnotes 77

Domestic 79

Aguas de Março: Midwestern Reprise 80

Weaning 82.

ISBN:

0887485987

9780887485985

OCLC:

894931388