Keep and give away / Susan Meyers ; foreword by Terrance Hayes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyers, Susan, 1945-2017.

Contributor:

Hayes, Terrance.

Series:

South Carolina Poetry Book Prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Poetry.

Families.

Home--Poetry.

Home.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (105 p.)

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Poems of discovery and loss pull the magical from the mundane

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Trying to Get It Right; Contraries; Your Mother Forbids You to Leave the Yard; That Year; Ghazal of the Past; Late One Friday Afternoon; A Good Idea; Primary Lessons; Trying to Get It Right; Sorry; Her Best Note; Cradle and All; Washing the Breakfast Dishes, I Decide; Villanelle for Gertrude Stein; Alterations; Mother, Washing Dishes; October Song; My Mother, Her Mornings; Daughter; Need Has Nothing to Do with It; An Early Spring Morning of My Mother's Decline; Selling My Mother's House; Her Porch, Her Yard; October, What the Mountains Say

Still WaterSomething Green, for My Mother; Weather; Someone Near Is Dying; Prayer; Cavities; Emergency Room; Fifty-four Days; Breath; Sweetgum in January; What the Season Has Come To; Hat of Many Goldfinches; Small Bones of Contention; A Counting; Morning Song; Guitar; The One Place; The Catch; Key West Elegy; Shelling: Ars Poetica; Fisher's Luck; Fishing the Edisto; Awaiting My Brother's Pathology Report, My Husband and I Take to the River; Koi; Out in the Cold with the Crows; Counting on the Slightest Chance; Small Bones of Contention; How the Living Worry; Our Manifold Sins

Love Poem Gone AstrayPlanting, the Second Year; The Wheelbarrower; Neither the Season, Nor the Place; Keep and Give Away

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with the South Carolina Poetry Initiative, University of South Carolina."

ISBN:

9786613809421

9781282166356

1282166352

9781611171785

1611171784

OCLC:

910069559