The darkened temple / Mari L'Esperance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

L'Esperance, Mari.

Series:

Prairie schooner book prize in poetry.

Prairie schooner book prize in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers--Poetry.

Mothers.

L'Esperance, Mari.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (99 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Longing itself is nothing but the heart's open spaces," writes Mari L'Esperance. And in the open spaces at the heart of these poems is a mother who has disappeared. In a world of war and displacement, illness of the mind and body, imprisonment and violence both historical and personal, the poet leads her readers through a landscape of loss. In unadorned language, she draws readers into the interplay between articulation and silence-and finally offers a vision of redemption.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; fog: memory; The Bush Warbler Laments to the Woodcutter; After Reading of the Expatriate Writer's Deathby Shipwreck; In the Valley of the Kings; Stroke; Something Coming Apart; Kamakura; Returning to Earth; The Doll Maker; Pantoum of the Blind Cambodian Women; Another History; Diagnosis; Trio; Prayer; The Last Time I Saw Her; The Search; Trying to Carry It; The Shoes; Caught; Where the Body Might Be,the Mind Follows-; Dark House; Beyond It; Finding My Mother; Forgetting; To Her Body; The Book of Ash; Grief Is Deep Green

For My Mother's BirthdayWhite Hydrangeas as a Way Back to the Self; Begin Here; What's Possible; After Fire; Two Maples; This Hour Passing; To My Father, Living for a Long Time inAnother Country; The Choices Not Made; Last Hour With His Dead Wife; Longing; Map of the World; Happiness and HappenstanceShare the Same Root; Epistle; The Night Garden; How It Happens; Nocturne; As Told by Three Rivers; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-281-95862-X

9786611958626

0-8032-6765-7

OCLC:

250471821