Hundred-year wave / Rachel Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, Rachel B. J., author.

Series:

Carnegie Mellon poetry

Carnegie Mellon poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

78 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Immaculately yet organically structured, Rachel Richardson's 'Hundred-Year Wave' dives and sails and swims from the cosmic to the personal, accounting for the epical, sublime and tragic, and the lyrical, hymnal and elegiac. The sea is the book's domain and the source of energy, its grief and soalce; and in wave after wave of remarkable poetry bearing wit and grit and tenderness, it heralds the arrival of a poet of great poise and prodigious lyrical gifts." --Khaled Mattawa.

Contents:

Navigator

Nature show, 3 a.m.

A brief history of the whale fishery

Mirror

Canticle in the fish's belly

Aquarius

Queenstown

Her stillness

Theory of desire: the Essex

Mistranslation of a fragment by da Vinci

Serpentinite, Jasper, and Clay

Plath's cakes

Rogue wave

"Drowning doesn't look like drowning"

Erosion [Eros]

At the cutting-in

Theory of desire: the wrecks

Heartbeat

Ultrasound

A gift cannot be refused

Susan Barnard Gardner, b. 1826, New Bedford

Tide book

Double aquarius

Constellation

A prow, a view

Whale study

Cathedral

Boy in bluebird pajama's

The unmaking

Labyrinth

Notes on 'nature show, 3 a.m."

The sisters

Astronomer

Theory of desire: the animal

In the week that my grandmother stopped eating

Vigil

Still

Fog, land's end

Transmission

Port

I and thou

Seaside

Anemones

Of whales in paint; in teeth; in wood; in sheet-iron; in stone; in mountains; in stars.

ISBN:

088748610X

9780887486104

OCLC:

923650117