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Invisible tender / Jennifer Clarvoe ; with an introduction by J.D. McClatchy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clarvoe, Jennifer, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clarvoe, Jennifer.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (73 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jennifer Clarvoe?s Invisible Tender is the first winner of the annual Poets Out Loud Prize for a book of poetry published each year by Fordham University Press in coordination with Fordham?s Poets Out Loud program. Poet J.D. McClatchy, the judge for the 1999 Prize, chose Invisible Tender from among nearly 500 manuscripts entered by poets from around the world. His introduction is included in the volume. The poems collected in Invisible Tender chart the terrains of childhood recollection and adult loss, of meditation and celebration. Intensely lyrical, both employing and altering traditional po
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""I. First Shapes""; ""2217 Platenstrasse""; ""Celery: Victorian Cross-Section""; ""Family""; ""Parts of a Bomb Poem""; ""Deck 7""; ""Ship's Lounge""; ""Vanity""; ""Gaze""; ""Answers""; ""Up Fish Ranch Road""; ""Lining""; ""The Lower Cottage""; ""Cracks""; ""Tracks""; ""Conscience Rocks""; ""Francesca & Paolo""; ""Picnic""; ""II. Songs of Multiplication and Division""; ""Thou Art Translated""; ""Distant Heart""; ""Flight""; ""Adam's Hand""; ""Song of Multiplication and Division""; ""Private, Offhand Sestina""; ""The Anguish""
- ""Leave-Taking""""Thread of Song""; ""Mock Sestina""; ""Echolocation: The Whale""; ""Lesson""; ""Mine""; ""Ohio: Unused Fireplace""; ""A Company""; ""Birdnotes""; ""Landscape Lit by an Apricot""; ""Ruth's Garden""; ""Household Prayer""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-3777-X
- 1-282-69839-7
- 9786612698392
- 0-8232-2088-5
- 0-585-41675-3
- OCLC:
- 727645684
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