Litany of thanks : a collection of poems / Joan Aleshire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aleshire, Joan.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elegiac poetry, American.

Death--Poetry.

Death.

Grief--Poetry.

Grief.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

88 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Four Way Books ; Hanover [N.H.] : Distributed by University Press of New England, [2003]

Summary:

In this moving book of elegies, the dead mingle with the living. Multiple narratives weave themselves together in these poems, like streams running downhill outside the rooms of human ghosts. Aleshire writes of a loved (lost) one: 'Do you expect me/ to lead? You turned to me once on the highway, / hiking from the stranded plane.// I did, I do--I don't know how/ to answer absence, except by this/ attachment to the tangible, or: desire.'

Contents:

I Knocks on Marble 5

(Day at Zero) 6

Funeral Fan 7

What Stunned 8

(Day At Zero) 10

WIld Sky 11

A Stranger and a Poor Man 13

The Wanderer 15

Flood of Our Time 17

(Day at Zero) 19

Days of Our Recklessness, 1960 20

Always 22

II Up To 25

Wide-Eyed Look 26

(Day at Zero) 28

Trainyard 29

Tete a Tete 31

(Day at Zero) 33

Do You Miss Me? 34

Light in the Desert 36

(Day at Zero) 38

Your Feet 39

What You Wish For 40

The God of Fire 42

(Day at Zero) 43

Great Portraits 44

III First steps in teh afterlife 49

(Day at Zero) 51

Dia de los Muertos 52

The Lost 53

Scapegoat, Winter Solstice 55

Stories We Tell Ourselves 57

(Day at Zero) 64

The Dead 65

Once More for Orpheus & Euridyce 66

IV Yellow Transparents: Reprise 71

Memorial Days 73

(Day at Zero) 74

After All 75

Litany of Thanks 77

Owner, End of the Night 78

Visit 80

(Day at Zero) 82

Late Summer, Late 83

Wonderful World 84

Watching Moonlight 86

(Day at Zero) 88.

Other Format:

Online version: Aleshire, Joan. Litany of thanks.

ISBN:

1884800459

9781884800450

OCLC:

52244123