The burning point : poems / by Frances Richey.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Richey, Frances.

Contributor:

• White Pine Press.
• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• White Pine Press poetry prize ; no. 9.
• White Pine Press poetry prize ; no. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• American poetry--21st century.
• American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

107 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, N.Y. : White Pine Press, [2004]

Summary:

"Relentlessly heartfelt and stringently beautiful, Frances Richey's poems recall us to a cycle we should never forget: the only way into the world is through the family; the only way into the family is through the self; the only way into the self is through the world. On page after page . . . we confront words born of necessity: nothing trivial or tossed off, everything wrenched and crafted from the rock of felt thought. The realms of other art-Renoir, Giacometti, Vermeer-feed Richey's perception, but she never forgets her obligation to have her own difficult making be foremost."-Stephen Corey

Contents:

• Sitting With Renoirs: A Young Girl With Daisies 11
• Pictures 12
• Walking Man 14
• In My Mother's Story 18
• In Her Own Words 22
• Child 24
• Time Song 25
• Even Though I Am Not Alone 27
• Winter Fields 37
• The Last Day 38
• I Loved 40
• Polaroid 42
• Lovers In Blue 43
• Sitting With Renoirs: By The Seashore 44
• Flower Journal 52
• Trodden Weed 56
• Nudes And Bathers 61
• I Was Not Forgiving 64
• On The Top Of Burnt Head 67
• Thursday, Broke 70
• The Model 71
• My Body Is Home 73
• The Ray 75
• Christmas At Mother's House In Winterhaven 76
• Woman Holding A Balance 83
• The Yoga Lesson 86
• The Movies 88
• Sitting With Renoirs: Bather Arranging Her Hair 91
• Christ In The House Of Mary And Martha 94
• The Chariot 97
• Wind From The Sea 100
• The Return 102.

ISBN:

• 1893996719
• 9781893996717

OCLC:

61024023

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