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Women Of America: Poems.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Charlie
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Poetry.
- Women.
- Love poetry, American.
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.
- Summary:
- Women of America is an affecting meditation on the mysteries of what drives the heart by one of America's most distinguished poets. Charlie Smith draws the poems in this volume from the tussle and cry of love, in remembrance of love's journey from fantasy to fact and back again, and in anticipation of loving the way we were meant to.
- Contents:
- Eastern forests
- There's trouble everywhere
- What this stands for
- Women of America
- Monkeys in white satin
- On not buying a cellphone
- Recall
- In July
- Shame
- My wild nights
- After Haydn
- Compared to what
- In Bahia Honda
- Modern art
- "Dem bones"
- I mean everything I say
- Late days
- Pursued by love's demons
- Solitude
- Old business
- Landscapes
- Talking to whom
- Each night I enter a terrible silence
- Refuge
- Call girls
- The night won't stop it
- Creation rites
- Someone still capable of change
- A selection process
- Excursion
- Portents
- The light shining now
- Still the moment intends to replace us
- Religious art
- Arrangements
- Magnificat
- Indications
- Ceremonies
- Passing through
- Sprung
- Material essential to the production
- True art
- Towns along the river
- Dusk at Homer's
- Day 7/24
- Common knowledge
- Rain West of Marfa
- New Jersey transit
- The moment preceding
- Little paradise
- Old nobodies traveling alone
- The wilderness
- Dusk, like the Messiah.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
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