Map home / David Havird.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Havird, David Long, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women psychologists--Fiction.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (87 p.)

Place of Publication:

Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the poem that opens this career-spanning odyssey, a blind weaver, who is at once a grandmotherly Penelope and a Homeric bard, "maps you home"--home finally, as the concluding poem reveals, to the Swamp Fox-haunted lowlands of Havird's native South. Along the way, which threads through Hardy's Wessex, the Greece of Homer and Seferis, and Jack London's Valley of the Moon, we take our bearings in "elliptical" terrain, as Rosanna Warren describes the typical setting--landscapes through whose gaps emerge the ghosts of memory and myth to engage the living in scenes of infinite moment. In Map Home , as in Havird's award-winning chapbook, Penelope's Design --but amply here--"the memories of 'a dream-disheveled child' in the Deep South unfold," as Eleanor Wilner observes, "into the meditative travels of the literary man in elegant poems riddled with starlight."

Contents:

Feeling her way

Wasps in winter

Eurydice's trousseau

Feeding the manger

Smoking in bed

Habit of the heart

A wind of goats

Late thaw

Dog dead and wife away

Below the brac

In seventh grade

With sister Louise at Graham Greene's grave

Thieves in the night

Prayers for a giant

The horse on Zennor Hill

Haunting the shropshire way

From Whitehall to Greenwich

Midnight oil

Downriver with uncle Paul

Through Romsdal fjord to wolf house

After the earthquake awaiting the lord

Isaac and Archibald were two old men

After vintage

Rose and Pearl's lost brother

A beard like Hemingway's

Flying blind

Pegasus

Penelope's design

A sunday of dogs

Through gates of horn

The snow

The poem of the oar

Diminishing returns

To the grave of Seferis and back

The fox at ancient Asini

The host of home and the nectar

Mining for sky.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Havird, David Long, 1953- Feeling her way.

ISBN:

1-4619-4874-6

1-937875-07-5

OCLC:

861559550