My Shining Archipelago / Chretien Chretien de Troyes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chretien de Troyes, Chretien, Author.

Contributor:

Raffel, Burton

Series:

The Yale series of younger poets My shining archipelago

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The winner of the 1996 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Talvikki Ansel for My Shining Archipelago. "Ansel`s poetry is refreshingly original," says the distinguished poet and contest judge James Dickey. "She renders the heat, the closeness, the mystery, and the terrible fear of the undisclosed, the lurking, the waiting to happen. This is true imagination, true craft." Flemish BeautyYesterday, all winter, I had not thought of pears, considered: pear. The tear-shaped, papery core, precise seeds. This one channeled through with worm tunnels. Bruises, a rotten half- sometimes there's nothing left to drop into the pot. That phrase I could have said: "you still have us..." The knife slides easily beneath the skins, top to base, spiraling them away. The insubstantial us. It could as well be the pear talking to the river, turning to the grass ("you still have us"). Besides, it's just me a pear in my hand (the slop bucket full of peels)-and sometimes, yes, that seems enough: a pear- this larger one, yellow-green, turning to red: "Duchess" maybe, "Devoe," or what I want to call it: "Flemish Beauty." When I can't sleep, I'll hold my hand as if I held a pear, my fingers mimicking the curve. The same curve as the newel post I've used for years, swinging myself up to the landing, always throwing my weight back. And always nails loosening, mid-bound.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Study Skins

Flemish Beauty

You Don't Know What Happened When Yon Froze

Eating

Three Ducks

Conversation with the Sun Bittern

Filaments

Fishing

In Fragments, In Streams

From Stone

Voyage

John Clare

Inscrutable Pig

The Periodic Table

Stories: Wolf Children

Stray Into, Away

Mill Street

Letter Intercepted

My Shining Archipelago

Afterwards: Caliban

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300146585

0300146582

OCLC:

319690445