| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 61 pages) : illustrations |
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May Swenson Poetry Award series |
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May Swenson Poetry Award series.
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| Contents |
Foreword / J.D. McClatchy -- Part 1 -- Gathering Him In -- Rain Turning to Snow -- Feral Kittens -- Missing -- For Nadja -- Gradual Clearing -- Ladybug -- Taking off My Cross -- Kiss, Afterward -- Dog, Napping -- Happiness -- Magnolia -- Rapunzel Descending -- Part 2 -- Respects -- Mother's Goldfish -- I Liked My Mother Best -- Bad Dog Man -- Underneath -- Saturday Mornings, 1954 -- By the Lake -- Remembering Stars -- Square Dance, 1956 -- Cello Lessons -- The Correction -- Midas Alone -- Vigil -- Chagall's Floating Woman -- Personal Effects -- Unafraid -- Mother -- Urn -- Part 3 -- Cold Front -- Midas's Daughter at Fifty -- Aging Nude -- Lines on a Window -- Cinderella at Work -- Thaw -- Antiphon -- Lighters and Knives -- The Clothesline Project -- White Shirt -- Eve In Exile -- Nowhere Near Bethlehem -- Magdalene Bathing -- Should This Become Ordinary -- Old Dog -- Remains -- Silent Night -- Blessing at the End of Time -- Pyre -- Where She Always Was -- Benediction |
| Summary |
In his foreword, J.D. McClatchy speaks of the musical qualities of Lindsay's work: ""It is impossible, reading her poems, not to hear a musical hand at work. This is not just a matter of delicacy or virtuosity. It is also a matter of knowing how to phrase a line ... Lindsay moves from detail to trope with utter poise, with an intuitive sense of what to sustain or emphasize. Her language is crisp. I can pick a stanza at random ... and praise its plosive energy, its modulated vowels, its variety and elan ... Where She Always Was allows us ... the rare gratification of watching a poet- |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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May Swenson Poetry Award winner, 2004 |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780874214987 |
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087421498X |
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1283267187 |
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9781283267182 |
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9786613267184 |
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661326718X |
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