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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.
- 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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