| Description |
1 online resource (85 pages) |
| Contents |
Feeling her way -- Wasps in winter -- Eurydice's trousseau -- Feeding the manger -- Smoking in bed -- Habit of the heart -- A wind of goats -- Late thaw -- Dog dead and wife away -- Below the brac -- In seventh grade -- With sister Louise at Graham Greene's grave -- Thieves in the night -- Prayers for a giant -- The horse on Zennor Hill -- Haunting the shropshire way -- From Whitehall to Greenwich -- Midnight oil -- Downriver with uncle Paul -- Through Romsdal fjord to wolf house -- After the earthquake awaiting the lord -- Isaac and Archibald were two old men -- After vintage -- Rose and Pearl's lost brother -- A beard like Hemingway's -- Flying blind -- Pegasus -- Penelope's design -- A sunday of dogs -- Through gates of horn -- The snow -- The poem of the oar -- Diminishing returns -- To the grave of Seferis and back -- The fox at ancient Asini -- The host of home and the nectar -- Mining for sky |
| Summary |
In the poem that opens this career-spanning odyssey, a blind weaver, who is at once a grandmotherly Penelope and a Homeric bard, "maps you home"--Home finally, as the concluding poem reveals, to the Swamp Fox-haunted lowlands of Havird's native South. Along the way, which threads through Hardy's Wessex, the Greece of Homer and Seferis, and Jack London's Valley of the Moon, we take our bearings in "elliptical" terrain, as Rosanna Warren describes the typical setting-landscapes through whose gaps emerge the ghosts of memory and myth to engage the living in scenes of infinite moment. In Map Home, as in Havird's award-winning chapbook, Penelope's Design-but amply here-"the memories of 'a dream-disheveled child' in the Deep South unfold," as Eleanor Wilner observes, "into the meditative travels of the literary man in elegant poems riddled with starlight." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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FICTION -- General.
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American poetry.
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Lyrik
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Amerikanisches Englisch
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781461948742 |
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1461948746 |
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