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The radiant / Cynthia Huntington.
LIBRA - Special PS3558.U517 R33 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huntington, Cynthia, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 82 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Four Way Books ; Hanover [N.H.] : Distributed by University Press of New England, [2003]
- Summary:
- In Cynthia Huntington's The Radiant, what is most tragic can, and often does, become beautiful. "What/ is memory? Who stays to mourn?/ It seems we feel so much/ and then we die. The marsh hawk/ veers over the grass, listening." Poems about Multiple Sclerosis and domestic turmoil are never drowned in the rhetoric of complaint, but seized by language that is intense yet seeks the equilibrium of its own level: "His loneliness is cold water. that makes rocks shine. Great stillness/ where he is. Then, slowly, birds." The poems in The Radiant flow brutally from a scarred heart, from "what grows hard, and cannot be repaired." But in the end these are prayers of thankfulness, prayers that transcend desire: ." . . we belong here, where no one is refused, / in the room we come to at last--immortal, / irreparable, beyond hope."
- Contents:
- Sea-Meadow
- Old Love
- Sleeping Out
- Vale
- White Roses
- Seawind
- The Ocean Has Been Glass
- Mystery
- The Rapture
- Multiple Sclerosis
- The Attic
- Ghost
- Harbor
- You Knew Her
- Hot Wind, Provincetown Harbor
- Lumbar Puncture
- The Meeting Room
- Curse One: The Wraith
- Cold Rain
- Untitled
- Curse Two: The Naming
- River of Doubt
- Curse Three: The Riddance
- End of Summer
- The Strange Insect
- Home Fires
- Curse Four: Orders for the End of Time
- Deep River Motor Inn
- Hades
- The Invasion of Canada
- Transplant
- Virtue
- Black Cat Waits for Death by the Road
- A Picture of My Brain (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
- Lilacs
- Balch Hill
- Canaan
- Nothing
- For Dora Maar
- Eventing, Race Point, Light Rain.
- Notes:
- "Levis poetry prize"--Page 4 of cover.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Huntington, Cynthia, 1951- Radiant.
- ISBN:
- 1884800491
- 9781884800498
- OCLC:
- 52054870
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