Zorba's daughter : poems / by Elisabeth Murawski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murawski, Elisabeth, 1936-

Series:

May Swenson Poetry Award series ; 14.

May Swenson poetry award series ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American literature--20th century.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (110 p.)

Place of Publication:

Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Zorba's Daughter, the 14th volume in the Swenson Poetry Award series, Elisabeth Murawski speaks from a vital and unique sensibility, finding in ordinary images an opening to the passion of human courage in the face of deep existential pain and ambivalence. These poems awaken our joy as well as guilt, our hope as well as grief. They often evoke a sorrowful music, like the voice of mourning, but even in pointing to ""the black holes of heaven,"" Murawski turns our gaze upward.Zorba's Daughter was selected for the Swenson Award by the distinguished poet Grace Schul

Contents:

Contents; Foreword by Grace Schulman; One; Zorba's Daughter; On Arriving and Departing; Normal: A Surgical Lovesong; Safeway Via Dolorosa; The Interview; Windy City; The Living Room, My Sister Wrote, Had Seven Windows; Before the Air Became the Journey; Home Burial Scene; Wedding Fall-out; Chicago Spelling Bee Championship; Puella; The Moon Academy; The Fish; Blue Lady; The Potato Lovers; Prize; For the Cat Anthony; Dusky; On Forgiving the Great Price; Frightened by Italy; Two; Hatteras Lighthouse; Arms; Zone; Camille Claudel at Large; In an Elizabethan Garden; Mosque; Mourning Doves

The TrapNot to Be; Leda in the Park; Italian Evening; Almost Naomi; I Lose My Way to Your House; Of a Feather; Virus; Meditation, the Morning After; Unrequited; The Proposal; Two Poets: A Sequel; Grooming; Three; Metaphysical; Long After Dark at the Church Carnival; On Hearing a Lecture on Stars; The Chapel That Tempted O'Keeffe to Become a Catholic; At the Smallest National Cemetery, Balls Bluff, VA; Planes; Key of Heaven; All the Things I Couldn't Say; Creche; Sculpture: The Young Acrobat; Small Fires-Nagasaki; Lullaby of the Train; One Eye; Child in Art Therapy; This Way, That Way; At Risk

Pretending in the Shower to be BlindPatient; Yak; After the Flower; Vanishing Point(s); Glass; Thoughts on St. Agatha; Earth Day; Note from a Train; On the High Speed Train to Vendome, I See a Woman Who Looks Like Madame Cezanne; Phrygian; Acknowledgments; About the Author; The May Swenson Poetry Award

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780874217971

0874217970

OCLC:

650341890