Trapeze: Poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Digges, Deborah

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry.

American poetry--20th century.

Middle-aged women.

Aging--Poetry.

Aging.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Summary:

These lush, rewarding reflections on a woman's passage into midlife are grounded in our intimacy with nature and mortality.Deborah Digges, now in her fifties, looks back in such poems as "Boat" to see younger mothers and their children, and ponders her own "brilliant, trivial unmooring." As she wanders from the garden to the barn and into.

Contents:

Intro

Other Books By This Author

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Chapter 1 - Winter Barn

Chapter 2 - Telling The Bees

Chapter 3 - Greeter Of Souls

Chapter 4 - Lilacs

Chapter 5 - Trapeze

Chapter 6 - Becoming A Poet

Chapter 7 - Gown Of Moleskins

Chapter 8 - Seersucker Suit

Chapter 9 - The Rainbow Bridge In The Painting Of The Sung Dynasty

Chapter 10 - Boat

Chapter 11 - Raising The Woolly Mammoth

Chapter 12 - Midsummer

Chapter 13 - Shopping With The Muses

Chapter 14 - My Life's Calling

Chapter 15 - Guillotine Windows

Chapter 16 - Solomon's Spoons

Chapter 17 - Ice Fishermen

Chapter 18 - So Light You Were I Would Have Carried You

Chapter 19 - My Literary Marriage

Chapter 20 - Two Of The Lost Five Virgins

Chapter 21 - Trillium

Chapter 22 - The Gardens Offered In Place Of My Mother's Dying

Chapter 23 - Pomegranate

Chapter 24 - Damascus

Chapter 25 - Fence Of Sticks

Acknowledgments

Permissions

About The Author

Copyright.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

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ISBN:

0-307-54821-X

OCLC:

842933492