If no moon [electronic resource] / Moira Linehan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linehan, Moira, 1945-

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry.

Crab Orchard series in poetry : open competition award

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grief--Poetry.

Grief.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (84 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If No Moon by award-winning author Moira Linehan documents the effects of profound loss and the dark withdrawal into grief. Wherever the author turns-the landscape of her backyard in Massachusetts, a Trappist monastery in Kentucky, the museums of Florence, or the cliffs of Inishmor in Ireland-she sees only the geography of emptiness. Crossovers between craft and art, form and voice, knitting and memory, recur throughout the poems. Lying within the tradition of narrative poetry, elegy, and the lyric, the collection reveals the mysterious journey of return. Coming full circle to find again the l

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Quarry; One; Penelope; Vow of Stability; What He Did for Me; If No Moon; Against Asking; Just Name It; Letter to Mario Saavedra-Olavarrieta, Now Brother Daniel, Weston Priory, Weston, Vermont; Two; Another Waking; The Route Grief Takes; For the Rest of My Life I Would Wear Black,; Pieta; Two Hearts; Memento Mori; Marking Time; Crows; The Pilrim's Way; Three; Dread; Refuge; Still Missing; Boxers Were What My Father Painted; Ireland; On Inishmor; Hunger; Going Back; Legend; Four; The New Part; Back; Understory; Eve's Design

All Over AgainBack into Place; Ars Poetica; In Praise of; Late Letter; Notes; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8093-8752-2

1-299-05063-8

OCLC:

856870256