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The present state of the garden / Heather Sellers.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.E5749 P74 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sellers, Heather, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Loss (Psychology)--Poetry.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Self-actualization (Psychology).
- Ecology--Poetry.
- Ecology.
- Separation (Psychology)--Poetry.
- Separation (Psychology).
- Self-actualization (Psychology)--Poetry.
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Elegies (Poetry)
- Physical Description:
- 75 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Distribution:
- Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Spokane, Washington : LynxHousePress, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Both childhood and the natural world are elegized as the speaker works through layers of loss: the dissolution of a marriage and a world on the brink of ecological collapse. She attempts to patch together some kind of new Eden in these aftermaths and to make a home and family from the remnants--memories from girlhood, a stray aunt and a niece, and what's left of her small, once lush garden after the punishing storms of summer."-- Provided by Publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PART I
- Bush Gardens
- Unloose
- Wet Season
- After Love
- Sometimes, After
- Aubade
- Poor Neighbors
- Stranded
- After Taking Me to Meet Great Aunt Fayrene
- Mythmaking
- On Coming Home Alone to a Florida Ringneck Snake Across the Doorstep
- For My Birthday
- Poem of His Motion
- After the Storm
- Lemon Tree
- The Evening After He Left
- Self-Portrait Between the Clock and the Bed
- Long Talking
- Dear Wolf
- Present State of the Garden
- Two Mid-Afternoons Side-by-side
- Feed the Soil
- PART II
- After
- Accidental Practitioners
- After Office Hours, After Epiphany and Those Beautiful Words Dear Friend
- Inventory for a Pedagogy at Midlife
- After Class
- Elegy With Plant-Sitter
- My Struggle
- After My Mother Died
- My Mother in My Bed
- Color Recollection
- Things I am Surprised I Love
- Poor Swimmers
- From Michigan on Her Winter Break, My Niece
- On a Rainy Afternoon in December
- Meeting My Eighty-Year-Old Aunt at the Fountain of Youth in St. Augustine for Lunch
- Beauty
- Interstate Four Ode.
- Notes:
- Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry, 2020
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0899241808
- 9780899241807
- OCLC:
- 1245578891
- Publisher Number:
- 99989367372
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