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Out of violence into poetry : poems 2018-2021 / Margaret Randall.
Van Pelt Library PS3535.A56277 O88 2021
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LIBRA PS3535.A56277 O88 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Randall, Margaret, 1936- author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 118 pages ; 23 x 16 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Antonio, Texas : Wings Press ; 2021.
- Summary:
- "Margaret Randall's most recent collection of poems, Out of Violence Into Poetry, was written over these past few years when language itself was violated by a president who lied until each lie, repeated often enough, resembled a terrible truth in the public discourse. Reality, sanity, beauty: all bend and run the risk of breaking when distorted beyond recognition. These poems consciously restore language to its natural habitat. They deal with history, memory, loss, life, death and promise. They address love and aging. They become a welcome refuge at a time of uncertainty and take us on disparate journeys that often have surprising twists. There is humor as well as rage. We cannot leave it to the politicians alone to give words their meaning back. That is the job of poets, and this book does that job well. Randall is the author of nearly 200 books, spanning more than six decades. Out of Violence into Poetry may well be her finest collection of poetry to date." - Amazon.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman
- I Celebrate
- One Tectonic Plate Slipping Beneath Another
- Out of Violence into Poetry
- Voice
- What They So Generously Bestow
- The Being Who Lives in Our Desire
- Today was a Good Day
- Banana. Sunrise. Chair.
- Lifetime Warranty
- The Loneliness of Age
- Ashes to Ashes
- A Risk Worth Taking
- Tongue Seeking Solace
- What isn't Possible but Happens
- The Rest was History
- We Won't Take Yes for an Answer
- Many Moons
- Molecules Sometimes Wonder
- Divine Love
- Progress
- Each Toy Argues its Future
- Mirrors Cut to Size
- The Hole October Leaves
- Above the Bloody Strings
- Democracy
- When it Comes to Rights
- Blame it on the Kid
- In the Gaze of a Clear Eye
- Love and Let Love
- Bed
- Numbed to the Action on the Ground
- Memory, Photographic and Otherwise
- Pristine in Exotic Memory
- Fashioned of Blood and Memory
- Imagine This
- With Memory Clinging to My Back
- These Memories We've Forgotten
- Where All that is Forgotten Lives
- Memory and Echo Play Together in a Modern-Day Garden of Eden
- The Big Prize
- Finite Distance Stumbles
- Tango
- Lost Hours
- When Death Visits
- Table Talk
- Death Doesn't Close a Door
- We Move America
- Dead
- The Phantom Elevator
- My Nightmares
- The Child Covers Her Eyes
- Suspicion and Empty Parables
- The Line as Wound
- Shy Circles Then Closes In
- Leonardo
- Bringing Takeout to the Curb
- Ignition of Skin on Skin
- The Trail of Doors
- I Move Through His Lies at the Speed of Light
- Eight Minutes 46 Seconds
- Leant Breathe...
- Breathe Another Day
- Postmarked Hanoi
- My Beginnings and Endings
- You Know Who You Are. Or Maybe Not
- In Step with Desire
- Delayed Fruit
- Promising Trouble When I'm Gone
- Acknowledgments.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781609406196
- 1609406192
- OCLC:
- 1266266755
- Publisher Number:
- 99989376494
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