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Subterranean: Poems.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bialosky, Jill
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Women authors.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
- Summary:
- Jill Bialosky follows her acclaimed debut collection, The End of Desire , with this powerful sequence of poems that probes the subterranean depths of eros.Gerald Stern has called Bialosky "the poet of the secret garden, the place, at once, of grace and sadness," and here she enters that garden again, blending the classical with the contemporary.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- I
- Subterranean
- Flirtation
- Terminal Tower
- II
- Torture
- Interior with Child
- Shadow Life
- Four Versions of Rain
- III
- Mystery
- The Wrath of the Gods
- Music Lesson
- The Fate of Persephone
- The Circles, the Rings
- The Adolescent Suicide
- The Fall
- Virgin Snow
- A Dream of Winter
- Raping the Nest
- Temptation
- Seven Seeds
- IV
- Landscape with Child
- The Swan
- A World Foregone Though Not Yet Ended
- History of Longing
- Oracle
- A Child Banishes the Darkness
- In Search of the Sublime
- The Aviary
- The Boy Beheld His Mother's Past
- Thanksgiving Primer
- The Barbecue
- The Arborist's Lament
- Atonement
- Pumpkin Picking
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- A Note About the Author
- Other Books by This Author.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-307-49143-9
- OCLC:
- 843027057
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