Night burial : poems / Kate Bolton Bonnici.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonnici, Kate Bolton, 1979- author.

Series:

Colorado Prize for Poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers and daughters--Poetry.

Mothers and daughters.

Grief--Poetry.

Grief.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (77 pages)

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colorado : The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, [2020]

Summary:

"In Night Burial, Kate Bolton Bonnici mourns her mother's death from ovarian cancer by tracing the composition, decomposition, and recomposition of the maternal body. Opening with an epigraph from Julia Kristeva's "Stabat Mater," which recognizes the "abyss that opens up between the body and what had been its inside," Night Burial moves from breastfeeding to laying sod on a grave, weaving together Alabama pine forests, fairy tales, philosophy, classical and Renaissance literatures, church practices, and hospice care. Through centuries-old and newly imagined poetic forms, Night Burial crafts a haunting litany for the dead. These poems ask the essential questions of grief, intertwined with family and place: how do we address the absent beloved, and might the poem become its own conjuring whereby the I can once again speak to the you?"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Fall Risk

[Mine eyes dry. .. cannot see have]

Corpses Like Night Soil / Get Carted Off

It was a Common Night

Household Tales

Morrow, Morrow, Valentine

Witchspeak

Burn Permit

Burnt Offering

Coming, Mama, to Carry

Recurrence

The Palace

In the Old Time, They Used to Putt a Penny in the Dead Persons Mouth

The Child Breaks a Glass of Milk

Ordinary Time

In Your Absence There Are No Mortal Banquets.

Measure of Ordinary Time

For My Mother Whose Mother is Ill

Let the Quick Then Cast Forth the Dead

Blood Lines

She Died This Was The Way She Died.

Primer

Night Burial

[Quiet. .. you are not among the]

[Look upon your servant]

[Thanksgiving I sat with her]

[fled to the woods]

[My other grandmother has stopped sewing. ]

[After the rains a path of needles, ]

[Just wear it]

[How to know someone is dying? Check their feet for mottling. ]

[In the opera, Manon speaks]

[Keen. .. cry out for the]

[My husband holds my hand]

[My mother fell into a sleep]

[For one minute]

[She left the room. .. she stopped breathing]

[Enter Mary]

[Daughters sing from the backseat]

[On foot my daughters aim stiff-arms, a Stop! ]

[Give me haint blue inside of which]

[When she came home]

[I am mad at you]

[You, she, we, I cant, ]

[Night burial, a winter sky, a winter ground]

[You lie here do]

[An ancient loopsomeone]

[Your mother dies. ]

The Former Object of My Everything

For this Daie Your Daughter Hathe Bene Bo the Alive and Deade

Transcendental Etude

Gallery

To Lay Sod on a Grave

Notes

Acknowledgements

Notes:

The Colorado Prize for Poetry

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781885635730

1885635737

OCLC:

1184122112