White summer [electronic resource] / Joelle Biele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biele, Joelle, 1969-

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry.

Crab Orchard award series in poetry : first book award

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Poetry.

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (80 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In White Summer, Joelle Biele investigates the problems of personal and cultural memory. Rich with images of flight and displacement, Biele's poems show a love for words, their music and physicality. In lyric addresses, historical meditations, and autobiographical narratives, she takes readers on a journey that includes stops at a dinner party in ancient Rome, a market square in Germany, an Italian feast in the Bronx, and the main concourse of Manhattan's Grand Central Station. She shows a sharp eye for the telling detail whether she is studying the migrations of birds or s

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; One; Autumn; The Festival of Dolls; Grand Central; Langestrasse; Rapture; Patapsco Female Institute; The Field; The Wren; Verviers; Family Stories; The Feast of Saint Joseph; The Journey; Two; To a Heron; To a Cicada; To a Spider; To a Crow; To a Catalpa; To a Mockingbird; To a Group of Starlings; To a Pelican; To a Fly Trapped in a Beach Road Motel; To a Seagull; To a Black Bird on the Water; To a Snail; To a Cormorant; To a Butterfly; Three; Night Sky; Wedding Kimono; Winter; Afterlife; Marché aux Oiseaux; Dinner with Trimalchio

AstorHopkins' Clouds; Theories of Flight; Necessary Angel; White Summer; Other Books in the Series; Back Cover

Notes:

"First Book Award"-- p. [i]

ISBN:

0-8093-8940-1

1-299-05083-2

OCLC:

856870462