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The glass globe : poems / Margaret Gibson.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.I1916 G53 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibson, Margaret, 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grief--Poetry.
- Grief.
- Global warming.
- Environmental degradation.
- Environmental degradation--Poetry.
- Global warming--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Ecopoetry.
- Physical Description:
- 117 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "For over 40 years, Margaret Gibson's poetry has explored intimate human relationships in the natural and social worlds we inhabit. In her thirteenth volume of poems, Gibson continues to see herself and her world with clarity and awareness, but now with perhaps greater urgency. These poems grieve deeply, even as they warn and celebrate, with elegies for the beloved and elegies for the earth during the impending global crisis wrought by climate change. "The Glass Globe" begins with a moving poem which recounts washing the beloved's body just after death, and it concludes with a poem that "washes" the body of the earth, "this only, and only once, for once and for all / earth, as if it were a lover who has died." The book follows a dialectic pattern: the first section of open-hearted personal loss and lament moves to a second section of poems that explore environmental crisis, followed by a third section in which the vastness of climatic catastrophe and the intimacy of personal bereavement merge and reflect each other"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Washing the Body
- How It Is
- Moment
- Panang Curry with Shrimp and Gustav Sobin
- Long Division
- Grief and the Art of Archery
- Waiting
- Scrolls
- Mountain Koan
- Slowly
- Deliberate and a Little Stern
- Looking Back, Looking Now
- What He Knew
- The Glass Globe
- Riverkeeper
- Resilience
- Reflection, Looking Straight Ahead
- Greed
- Asides and Notations
- Sky Pond Place
- Cloud Koan
- Solving for the Root
- Butternut Squash Heart Sutra
- White Phlox
- Like So Much Weather
- Because the Earth
- Exchange
- Wing
- Judge Not
- Never Pitiless Enough or Kind
- The Keep
- When Everything Broken Is Broken
- One Hour
- Star Koan
- This Morning
- Tiger, Tiger
- Intimacy
- Grace
- Always an Immigrant.
- Notes:
- "LSU Press Paperback Original"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gibson, Margaret, The glass globe
- ISBN:
- 9780807175637
- 0807175633
- OCLC:
- 1226077730
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