Trace of one : poems / by Joanna Goodman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodman, Joanna, 1968-

Series:

Iowa poetry prize.

The Iowa poetry prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (67 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Trace of One,real geographies merge with spiritual ones, just as details of the speaker's physical and emotional worlds intertwine with the transcendent realms of science, religion, and myth. Joanna Goodman's poems share a sense of spatial and temporal displacement-they are love poems to a place, whether it be a field, a room, or a paradise-they celebrate their subjects, but they are also poems of grief and solitude. The poems resonate with ethereal echoes paradoxically emitted by an increasingly demystified world in which mechanical explanations for the workings of t

Contents:

I; Tebaide; . . . Took Form Again; Falser Certainty; de' Fiori; The Succession of Parts; Take Aim; Beech Tree in March; Enchanted; Benares; A Light Arch of Cloud, Ten Fingers Wide; On the Holy Friar Crossing a Suspension Bridge to Paradise; Conversion; This Is Joy; Directions; Pian dell'Arca; Coming of Age; II; Wave; Trace of One; How Did You Come to Know; Reasons for Everything; Of Force and Distance; Where to End; Port de Grave; Departure; Watermark; What Brought Them There; The Aftermath; Resuscitation; Recitative; The Dry Spell

After Being Called Naive, I Consult The Single Source for PeopleWho Need to Be RightExamples of Use; What You Can Expect This Month; Coming Up Violets; The Moon Smiled Cheekily; Home; Laws of Motion; In an Excessive Corridor; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781587294105

1587294109

OCLC:

56109534