Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems: 1975-2002.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peacock, Molly

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Women poets, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.

Summary:

"In poems humorous and daring, forthright and wise, Molly Peacock returns in this collection to the landscape of North American poetry she has helped create--the investigation of love in all its manifestations. In the new poems, she takes us to the Land of the Shí, a world reached not by going but by staying."--Publisher description.

Contents:

The Land of the Shí : new poems (2002). A favor of love ; A love koan ; The Land of the Shí ; Lexington Avenue musedog ; Ash Wednesday, hurrying eastward ; Nude at a dressing table ; Repair ; The parsley ship ; The umbrella ; Refusal ; Tan oval head leaning toward tiny brown oval shell ; Let me manage something simple ; The land of tears ; Couple sharing a peach ; Diary of our day in painting titles ; Conversation ; The soul house ; Breakfast with cats from And live apart (1980). A kind of parlance ; Anno domini ; Nightwake ; Walking is almost falling ; The lawns of June from Raw Heaven (1984). The distance up close ; The lull ; Just about asleep together ; Old roadside resorts ; Those paperweights with snow inside ; Where is home? ; Our room ; Loneliness ; She lays ; The shoulders of women ; The land of veils ; North of the eyes ; Two cups on the table ; Squirrel disappears ; Things to do ; Smell ; Petting and being a pet ; Waking to the chatter of the child next door ; A bed for a woman ; And you were a baby girl ; Islands in our eyes ; So, when I swim to the shore ; Cut flower ; Afraid ; A face regresses ; Sky inside ; Sweet time ; The veil of If ; Mental France ; Next afternoon ; Cutting tall grass ; A garden ; A gesture ; The burnt lawn ; Nervous jabbering ; Among tall buildings ; Aubade ; Berries which are berries ; The little girls ; The web of histories ; My vast presumption ; Stumble ; Novembers ; This time ; Desire ; World we sleep in ; Forsythia below clouds ; The breach of Or from Take heart (1989). How I come to you ; The valley of the monsters ; Buffalo ; Commands of love ; Say you love me ; Blank paper ; Dream come true ; Unexpected freedom ; Putting a burden down ; That leaf ; Blue and huge ; The spell ; A hot day in Agrigento ; The surge ; Parrots of the world ; Food for talk ; Joy ; My God, why are you crying? ; Merely by wilderness ; Chriseaster ; On the street ; The ghost ; Things can be named to death ; A simple purchase ; How I had to act ; Anger sweetened ; Feeling sorry for yourself ; Throwing out old clothes ; Friendship with men ; Reunion ; Instead of her own ; Friends ; The worm ; I must have learned this somewhere ; Art buzzards ; Good girl ; Don't think governments end the world ; Choice ; When I love you ; One place ; Altruism ; Dear heart ; The smell of a god ; Trying to evangelize a cut flower ; Dear arm ; There must be from Original love (1995). The wheel ; So what if I am in love ; My college sex group ; Have you ever faked an orgasm? ; Panties and the Buddha ; The return ; Love wall ; Waking up ; The scare ; Marathon song ; The purr ; Lullaby ; Blush blessing ; Little miracle ; The spider heart ; Seeing a basket of lobelia the color of a bathrobe ; The rule ; The job ; Yes ; No ; Dogged persistence ; The fare ; Miss, miss, are you awake? ; Unseen ; Floral conversation ; I consider the possibility ; Vogue vista ; Portrayal ; Love beat ; The hunt ; The explanation ; Baubles after bombs ; Religious instruction ; In a long line of horses ; Subway vespers ; Simple ; Forgiveness ; Cancelled elegy ; Happy birthday ; Upbringing ; Good-bye hello in the East Village ; Matins ; Prairie prayer ; Life study ; Why I am not a Buddhist.

Notes:

Poetry reproduced elsewhere omitted.