Ledger / Susan Wheeler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheeler, Susan, 1955-

Series:

Iowa poetry prize.

The Iowa poetry prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (95 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The many meanings of ""economy"" are the ground for the mediation and lament of Ledger, Susan Wheeler's fourth book. In its Greek origins, economy referred to the stewardship of a household and, as it developed, the word also came to include aspects of government and of religious faith. Ledger places an individual's crisis of spirituality and personal stewardship, or management of her resources, against a backdrop of a culture that has focused its ""economy"" on financial gain and has misspent its own tangible and intangible resources.

Contents:

Contents; Loss Lieder; Proper Return; That Been to Me My Lives Light and Saviour; Roanoke and Wampumpeag; The Green Stamp Book; Carnival; Doubled Indemnity; Each's Cot an Alter Then; Short Shrift; Surfeit; Hand, Mouth, Market; Good Goods; Charity Must Abide Call for Ancient Occupation; Anthem; Romanticism; Money and God; Depleted Stocks; Figures on a Kylix ...; Trade; Barry Lyndon in Spring Lake, 1985; Song of the Deserving; Port in the Airport; Toward Autumn; Overtaxed Lament; The Debtor in the Convex Mirror; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781587296017

1587296012

OCLC:

646887671