The Willow Grove : Poems By Laurie Sheck

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheck, Laurie

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women poets, American.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

Summary:

Laurie Sheck interweaves the contemporary with the mythic, creating a realm in which such things as radios, skyscrapers, expressways, and mannequins are at once familiar and strange; immediate, yet tinged with the light of distance and myth. It is a realm where faces on a television newscast disappear "into the undertow / of hunger for the next thing and the next," and mannequins "stand in their angelic armor."

Placed at intervals throughout these pages is a series of poems entitled "From The Book of Persephone," poems that explore the underworld through a fractured contemporary lens, depicting it as a psychological landscape of isolation and desire.

Contents:

White Noise

The Return

The Stockroom

From The Book of Persephone (I)

From The Book of Persephone (II)

Living Color

Poppies

Evening Walk

From The Book of Persephone (III)

Mannequins

Voltage

The Unfinished

The Inn

From The Book of Persephone (IV)

From The Book of Persephone (V)

The Wood Lily, Etc.

Marionettes

In Spring

The Visit

Childhood

Learning to Read

From The Book of Persephone (VI)

Mummy

Although It Is Daylight

Morning Walk

Sycamore

From The Book of Persephone (VII)

From The Book of Persephone (VIII)

The Leper Colony

White Light

Airwaves

Filming Jocasta

From The Book of Persephone (IX)

In the City of Gold Domes

Walking

View of the Asylum Garden

Rain

Thinking of the White Lamb at San Apollinare en Classe

From The Book of Persephone (X)

Headlights

Stairways

Streets

Cypresses

The Harbor Boats

From The Book of Persephone (XI).

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

0-307-56118-6

1-299-11479-2

OCLC:

842874024