Cloud moving hands / Cathy Song.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Song, Cathy, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These poems, threaded by the teachings of Buddha, examine loss-the death of a loved one, the longing for a child, the yearning for another place and time-and the suffering such attempts transpire, but ultimately the poems are an affirmation that to be born into human life is our greatest opportunity to transform loss and sorrow into awakening joy.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Lady Mappo Enters the City of Samsara

Someone Else's Shoes

One Who Hears

Something to Cheer About

My Mother Stares at the Picture

The Day Comes as I Knew

The Land of Good Intentions

Waiting for Jizo

The Burning House

Long Before I Enter the Gate

Near the End, the Man

The Man Moves Earth

The Day Has Come When My Mother

My Beautiful Daughter Calls to Tell Me It's Snowing

Sleek-finned and Black, Hooded

My Mother's Last Gift

The Adoration of the Faithful

The Temple of Our Dilemma

A Woman Lies Facedown in the Sand

When They Removed Your Breasts

The Souls We Carry Hunger for Our Light

The Kindness of Others

The Chance to Become True and Real

Breaking Karma

I Hated the Hairy Ones

The Body Remembers Itself in Wholeness

The Beautiful Beasts Are Returning

They Dwell in the Blue Abiding Light

Out of a Dream of Blue Water

A Prayer for My Mother

Cloud Moving Hands

The Old Old Concubine

Notes

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822991212

0822991217

OCLC:

891395017