Children Of Paradise.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenberg, Liz.

Series:

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Women poets, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

Summary:

A book of poems about "children" in the widest sense-from children of the Nazi-torn Warsaw ghettos to the American poor, as well as poems of domesticity, love and daily life.

Contents:

Front Matter(pp. i-vi)

Table of Contents(pp. vii-viii)

Where Were You?(pp. 3-3)

Susquehanna(pp. 4-4)

Wild World(pp. 5-5)

The Blue-Flowered Bell(pp. 6-7)

Because I Was Dying(pp. 8-8)

In the Country of Dreamers(pp. 9-9)

Bathtime(pp. 10-10)

College Days(pp. 11-11)

A Lesson in Anatomy(pp. 12-12)

Be the One(pp. 13-13)

Since Only Desire Is Infinite(pp. 14-14)

The New Life(pp. 15-16)

Pregnancy, First Trimester(pp. 17-17)

The Noble Corpse(pp. 18-18)

The Newborns(pp. 19-19)

All Those Hours Alone in the Dark(pp. 20-20)

The Dark Side(pp. 21-21)

The Terrible Ones(pp. 22-22)

Intensive Care Unit(pp. 23-24)

Darkness with Flashes of Light(pp. 25-25)

Admiring the Enemy(pp. 26-26)

Pentimento(pp. 27-27)

Third First Snow(pp. 28-28)

The Poem of My Heart(pp. 29-32)

After the Death of a Neighbor's Child(pp. 35-35)

The Little Red Shoe(pp. 36-36)

The Suffering(pp. 37-37)

Dark Eyes(pp. 38-39)

Ecco Homo(pp. 40-40)

The Recitation(pp. 41-41)

Fairy Tales(pp. 42-42)

The Method(pp. 43-43)

The First Child Martyr at Illinois Elementary(pp. 44-44)

The Black Shoe(pp. 45-45)

The Birthday Party(pp. 46-46)

The Silence of Women(pp. 47-47)

Fireworks(pp. 48-48)

My Husband Takes a Photograph of Me(pp. 49-50)

If Love Is Like the Rain(pp. 51-51)

The Plum Seed(pp. 52-52)

The Wedding(pp. 53-53)

New Days(pp. 54-54)

A Vanished World(pp. 55-60)

Van Gogh's Potato Eaters(pp. 61-61)

The Crucified(pp. 62-62)

The Dalai Lama(pp. 63-63)

Charity(pp. 64-64)

The Details(pp. 65-66)

Back Matter(pp. 67-69).

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822980858

0822980851