Pass It On / Rachel Hadas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hadas, Rachel, author.

Series:

Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets

Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 76

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The poems in Rachel Hadas's new book are united by a common preoccupation with passage--passage variously construed. In Section I, the four seasons are glimpsed in turn through the lenses of several types of personal associations, especially parenthood. As spring gives way to fall and winter, separation looms; diverse kinds of temporary and permanent renewal come with spring, and the fifth poem in this section steps outside this cycle. In Section II, the phrase "pass it on" recalls the game "telephone," in which a word is whispered by one speaker to another. Here the poems focus on tradition, primarily as it is transmitted through teaching, but also through art and again parenthood. Thoughts on teaching specific texts (the Iliad, Dickinson's poems, Sophocles' Philoctetes) alternate with more personal moments of contemplation. Finally, in Section III "pass it on" comes to signify transition--whether between spring and summer, city and country, youth and age, presence and absence, or life and death.From "Three Silences": Of all the times when not to speak is best, mother's and infant's is the easiest, the milky mouth still warm against her breast.Before a single year has passed, he's well along the way: language has cast its spell. Each thing he sees now has a tale to tell.A wide expanse of water-cean. Look! Next time, it seems that water is a brook. The world's loose leaves, bound up into a book.Originally published in 1989.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

Contents

Acknowledgments

I

The Fields of Sleep (Summer

Earth and Air (Fall)

Fix It (Winter)

Hortus Conclusus (Spring

Over the Edge

II

Pass It On) I

Pass It On, II

The Blind Gates

Teaching Emily Dickinson

The Lost Filling

Mortalities

Pass It On) III

Teaching the Iliad

Philoctetes

Pass It On, W

Teacher between Terms

Generations

III

Summer in White, Green, and Black

First Hight Back

Odds Against

The Writing on the Wall

The Burial of Jonathan Brown 1983-1985

Three Silences

Four Angers

Five Botched Goodbyes

The End of Summer

Nourishment

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9781400859900

1400859905

OCLC:

979727644