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Inside the wave / Helen Dunmore.
Van Pelt Library PR6054.U528 A6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunmore, Helen, 1952-2017, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--21st century.
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- English poetry -- 21st century.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 63 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hexham, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books, 2017.
- Summary:
- "To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead - the underworld and the human living world - and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they explore the bliss and anguish of the voyage."--Publisher information.
- Contents:
- Counting Backwards 11
- The Underworld 12
- Shutting the Gate 13
- In Praise of the Piano 14
- Re-opening the old mines 15
- Inside the Wave 16
- Odysseus to Elpenor 18
- Plane tree outside Ward 78 20
- The shaft 21
- Leave the door open 22
- My life's stem was cut 23
- The Bare Leg 24
- The Place of Ordinary Souls 26
- My daughter as Penelope 27
- The Lamplighter 29
- The Halt 30
- Bluebell Hollows 31
- A Loose Curl 32
- Hornsea, 1952 33
- Festival of stone 35
- A Bit of Love 36
- Winter Balcony with Dunnocks 37
- Mimosa 38
- Nightfall in the IKEA Kitchen 39
- The Duration 41
- At the Spit 43
- Terra Incognita 44
- Four cormorants, one swan 45
- Girl in the Blue Pool 46
- February 12th 1994 47
- What shall I do for my sister in the day she shall be spoken for? 48
- In Secret 49
- All the breaths of your life 50
- Her children look for her 51
- Little papoose 52
- Cliffs of Fall 53
- Five Versions from Catullus 54
- 1 Through Babel of Nations 54
- 2 Undone 55
- 3 Sirmio 56
- 4 Dedication 57
- 5 Sparrow 58
- Rim 59
- On looking Through the handle of a cup 60
- Ten Books 61
- Subtraction 63
- My people 64
- September Rain 65
- Hold out your arms 69.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781780373584
- 1780373589
- OCLC:
- 962007197
- Publisher Number:
- 99973905025
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