The geometry of wishes : poems / Randall Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watson, Randall, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (82 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2018]

Summary:

In Randall Watson's The Geometry of Wishes, as much a subtle narrative sequence as it is a collection of lyrical meditations, an ecstatic generosity arises from an elegiac base, moving through our inescapable patterns of loss to emerge as an invocation of our mutuality, our tenderness. Refusing easy sentiment, these poems, resonant and limber, traverse the complexities of longing that beguile us, deepening our lives, giving them both gravity and lightness.

Contents:

Teaching myself to read

Autumn sonata (a love poem for strangers)

Emerging into autumn from a Nantucket cabana

Once grief has entered

Trailways, August 28, 1963

Great Plains pastoral

Ghost month

Shikoku triptych

The dakini (1)

The dakini (2)

Treasure

Dear Alice

Nostalgia

The recital

Xalapa

Refugee

Mitla

Laurels from India (Oaxaca)

Television

Spanish cairns

Anatomy of melancholy

The Ukrainian postman's spring flowers

As to the tangerine

Transcompassion

The Sabbath

The divers.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Watson, Randall The Geometry of Wishes

ISBN:

9781680031621

OCLC:

1021068283