Windfall: New and Selected Poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Maggie

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Windfall includes poems from three previous books by Maggie Anderson, along with a generous selection of new work. In this collection we can see over two decades of the growth of a poet memorable for the clarity, strength, and urgency of her voice. Anderson's poems entangle a language, a history, and a group of belongings, and she is both at home and a foreigner in the places she invokes. Every place in these poems seems inhabitable, yet the tensions of these deceptively quiet lines develop out of the clear reluctance or inability of the poet to sit still. Maggie Anderson writes out of deep g.

Contents:

I. from Years That Answer; Body and Soul; Caving; What Grief Does; The Keener; For the Anniversary of My Father's Death; from In the Art of the Inuit; Reflections in My Mind; Owl with Young; Complex of Birds; Daphne; Dancing in the Evening Sun; II. from Cold Comfort; Country Wisdoms; House and Graveyard, Rowlesburg, West Virginia, 1935; Independence Day, Terra Alta, West Virginia, 1935; Mining Camp Residents, West Virginia, 1935; Spitting in the Leaves; Related to the Sky; The Wash in My Grandmother's Arms; Cemetery, Saint Josephs Settlement; With Wine; The Thing You Must Remember.

In My Mother's HouseIn Singing Weather; Heart Fire; Anything We Leave Forever; III. from A Space Filled with Moving; Ontological; Empirical; Marginal; Anywhere But Here; Heart Labor; Sonnet for Her Labor; Holding the Family Together; Long Story; Closed Mill; Abandoned Farm, Central Pennsylvania; Beyond Even This; The Invention of Pittsburgh; Big Romance; As Long As I Can; Wild Berries; Setting Out; The Only Angel; IV. New Poems; Knife; Interior with Letter; The Sleep Writer; Black Dog Remembers; The Game; Black Dog Lies Down; Black Dog Goes to Art Colony; Report from Here; Late Apology.

The BorderForeign; In Translation; Where; Literary; Self-Portrait; In the Midst of Our Happiness; What She Wrote; My First Yiddish Poem; These Greens; Notes; Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822980124

0822980126

OCLC:

889813718