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Author Borroff, Marie.

Title Stars and other signs : poems / by Marie Borroff
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 82 pages)
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author�s Note -- Stars and Other Signs -- Configurations -- Broken Thumb -- Balance Forward -- Gathering -- Connecticut Light -- In Range of Bells -- A Visit -- Interlude -- Dirge for the Living -- Departure and Arrival -- Houses -- Continuations -- Portrait of a Young Woman, ca. 1912 -- Floating -- An Exhibition of Paintings by William Bailey -- Mischa Levitzki, Valse in A Major -- On Powderhorn Island -- Not Later, Not Less -- A Medieval Carol -- Solitude -- To Katharine Lately Born -- Walking: A Psalm
Mother, With DaughterPartly Cloudy -- Land and Sea -- A Star Turn -- Two Trees -- Understanding Poetry -- In Memoriam J.B.G. -- The Waves -- Autobiography -- At Seventy, The Tools -- A Day -- Maine Brevities -- With Closed Eyes -- Origination -- Triptych -- Early Poems -- Sight -- Ars Poetica -- The Allegro Goes Out -- Driving in Pioneer Valley -- The Ebb -- The Dwellings -- Next Moment -- Belated Tribute -- Song -- Countersong -- The Wisdom of Love -- The Donors -- In Another Country -- In Memoriam A.M.S
Reflections in TransitPatient in Waiting -- The Strangers -- A February Scene -- The Watchers
Summary These poems, written over fifty years, address such subjects as the celerity of time, old age, art, literary acquaintances, and the author's beloved New England landscape. They delight in sound and form, even as they unsettle and disturb
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SUBJECT Borroff, Marie -- Poetry
Subject American poetry -- 21st century.
POETRY -- American -- General.
American poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300127607
030012760X
1281741035
9781281741035
9786611741037
6611741038