The Power to Change Geography / Diana O'Hehir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Hehir, Diana, 1922-2021, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 99

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (74 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Writing about poetry Diana Ó Hehir says, "I think of poetry as harnessed energy-as a marvelous way of taking the chaotic emotion, the turbulent perception, and recreating them as images that are specific, definite, directed. Miraculously, when this process works, it's one of expansion rather than diminution; the fortunate poet can reach out beyond the walls of separate personality into a general air that everyone breathes. I think of my own poetry as intense, imagistic, surreal, and personal, and try to write about perceptions which have pushed me toward change or renewal." For the last six years Diana Ó Hehir has been writing poetry and has had poems published in Antaeus, Kayak, Poetry Northwest, and Southern Poetry Review.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

I

They Arrive This Morning

The Power to Change Geography

The Retarded Children Find a World Built Justfor Them

The Prophet of Salt Lake City

Called

Vision; Fire Underground

I Attend the Saint's Death

Waterfall

II

The Days Are Getting Shorter

Alone by the Road's Edge

A Landscape Never Explored

Vision of Bea

In Mexico: The Indian Woman

We Live in the Ice Country

Survivor

Threatened

Victim

Illinois Central Hospital

The Sea Creature

House

The Child at the End of the World

III

Living on the Earthquake Fault

Growing Coal

The Worst Motel

Besieged

Cars Go by Outside, One After Another

An Isthmus in the Bay

Maude's Bar Like

Are You Concerned for Your Safety, Alone in the House?

Ship Wreck

January Class: It Hasn't Rained for Seven Months

IV

In the Basement of my First House

Recluse

Four A.M.

Our World, and Us, Remade by Heat

Metastasis

Anger

Waiting for my Eyes to Open on Day

Night's End

The Place Where Dreams Stop

New Tenants

V

After the Cataclysm

Watching

How to Forgive

Metamorphosis

Recovering Exorcising Ghosts

Exorcising Ghosts

Learning to Type

Reprieved

After You're All in Bed

Home

Anima

Backmatter

Notes:

Poems.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691604329

0691604320

9780691633473

0691633479

9780691013541

0691013543

9781400870578

1400870577

OCLC:

902958312