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Weave : new and selected poems / Wendy Barker ; foreword by Alicia Ostriker.

Van Pelt Library PS3552.A67124 W43 2022
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Barker, Wendy, author.
Contributor:
Ostriker, Alicia, writer of foreword.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American poetry--20th century.
American poetry.
Genre:
Poetry.
Physical Description:
199 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Kansas City, Missouri : BkMk Press, [2022]
Summary:
"Weave: New and Selected Poems showcases poems from Barker's long career that includes selections from her seven previous full-length collections, as well as new work. The collection features a wide range of subjects and themes, notable among them the poet's perspectives as an educator (especially in the English-literature classroom), her family's stories, and her perspectives on contemporary American life"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: NEW POEMS
In the Gallery
On Salt
One Week After the Election
About Chocolate
The Dirt
That Bell for Ethel
After the Shooting in Tucson
On Stain Removal
Sour Take
Why Cages
On Scissors and Matisse
In My Seventy-Sixth Year
In Praise of Stumps
Rilke to Roethke on Rosh Hashanah
On Delta Flight #2164 from JFK
Not Montale's Eel
In the Galapagos
After Reading Baudelaire
In Light of the Eclipse
Lifted
Circlings
From GLOSS (2020)
What Surfaces
Silk Roads
"Elegant," She Said
Ivory Carvings
Interior
Gathering Bones
Latent Image
Surgery, A Little History
Beyond a Certain Age, I Look for Paris in Paris
From SHIMMER (2019)
On the Chinese Scroll
Along a River
Maybe His Boat
How a Surface
Even Tarnished
The Silver Tongs'
Mom's Creamer
The Dragon Bowl
From ONE BLACKBIRD AT A TIME (2015)
I Hate Telling People I Teach English
Truth, Beauty, and the Intro Poetry Workshop
Waking Over Call It Sleep
Books, Bath Towels, and Beyond
About That "One Art"
Teaching Mrs. Dalloway I'm Thinking
Langston Hughes' "Weary Blues"
I'm Not Sure the Cherry Is the "Loveliest of Trees"
Arriving at Wallace Stevens in the Thirteenth Week
The Last Time I Taught Robert Frost
From FROM THE MOON, EARTH IS BLUE (2015)
Closeted Indigo
Apologia for Brown
Composition in Gray
Apology for Blue
High Yellow
From NOTHING BETWEEN US (2009)
Teaching Uncle Tom's Children
Folks
Audio Visual
Macrame
On the Bay
Freed up
Integration
Sax
Half and Half
Luminous
Remedial Reading
From Things of the Weather (2008)
Contrails
Stratus Opacus Nebulosus
Thunder
Cumulus and Cirrus
From between frames (2006)
Trash
Reflection
From Poems From Paradise (2005)
Lemon, Oak, Cypress
The Third Week
Once
Whether
Butterfly
If a God
From Way of Whiteness (2000)
Taking a Language
Some Days the Only
Of Mice and Men
Generation
At 50, Choosing New Makeup
In Venice the Travelers
Inheritance
Way of Whiteness
From Let The Ice Speak (1991)
Baptism
My Father's Living Room
Playing the Game of Statues
Dancing Lessons
Black Sheep, White Stars
Why We Went to the Ocean
Once More, Squirm Lake
Father's Fish
Requiescat, for My Father
From Winter Chickens (1990)
Winter Chickens
The Navy Blue Chair
Schonbrunn Yellow
Night Song
Swallow Watcher.
ISBN:
9781943491391
1943491399
OCLC:
1347434464

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