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The daughter's almanac : poems / Katharine Whitcomb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitcomb, Katharine, author.
- Series:
- The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Omaha, NE : The Backwaters Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- "With unflinching stanzas threaded through with grief's relentless lyric, The Daughter's Almanac is a masterwork, a deftly crafted illustration of the myriad ways beauty collides with pain.Succinct and utterly memorable, these poems take hold of the heart and tug it toward an insistent light.We are washed alive in that light.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- I. Summer, Posthumous
- Ghost
- Summer, Posthumous
- All Night
- Fawn
- Sweet Time
- When
- Balfour
- Curriculum Vitae
- II. Claret and Gold
- When Traveling in Airplanes I Always Think of God
- Poem with Backdrop of Boar Hunters in Fluorescent Vests, Calling out across the Chestnut Forest
- Through the Window
- Vox
- The Hanged Man
- Vermont Suite
- This Is Your Brain on Physics
- Tobacco Heart
- Blasted
- The Plan of Ms. Wenz to Marry Up
- "'Tis Bitter Cold and I Am Sick at Heart"
- Departed Cordelia
- Unbidden
- Dream on His Birthday
- This Is Where Things Stand on the Twenty-Seventh of October
- Against Melancholy
- III. Winter
- Sea Journals: A Sequence
- Sea Journal [visited one, dwelt-in one]
- Sea Journal [code over the water]
- Sea Journal [meanwhile]
- Sea Journal [occasion is everything]
- Sea Journal [in sleep each chapter]
- Sea Journal [simple x simple o]
- Sea Journal [pain so brilliant]
- Sea Journal [he writes that weeks go by]
- Sea Journal [rain-stark in the wind]
- Sea Journal [corners where he once]
- IV. Greening
- Horse Dream
- How Flatterers Must Be Shunned
- The Prince's Almond Trees
- Poem Ending with a Line by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
- Love Letters
- Star
- Intercession to the Saint of the Reading Room
- First
- Air
- Poem without Ferocity
- Animal Heaven
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- "2014 Backwaters Prize Winner."
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4962-2074-9
- OCLC:
- 1117634284
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