| Description |
1 online resource (81 pages) |
| Series |
Prairie schooner book prize in poetry |
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Prairie schooner book prize in poetry
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| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; fog: memory; The Bush Warbler Laments to the Woodcutter; After Reading of the Expatriate Writer's Deathby Shipwreck; In the Valley of the Kings; Stroke; Something Coming Apart; Kamakura; Returning to Earth; The Doll Maker; Pantoum of the Blind Cambodian Women; Another History; Diagnosis; Trio; Prayer; The Last Time I Saw Her; The Search; Trying to Carry It; The Shoes; Caught; Where the Body Might Be, the Mind Follows -- ; Dark House; Beyond It; Finding My Mother; Forgetting; To Her Body; The Book of Ash; Grief Is Deep Green |
| Summary |
"Longing itself is nothing but the heart's open spaces," writes Mari L'Esperance. And in the open spaces at the heart of these poems is a mother who has disappeared. In a world of war and displacement, illness of the mind and body, imprisonment and violence both historical and personal, the poet leads her readers through a landscape of loss. In unadorned language, she draws readers into the interplay between articulation and silence--and finally offers a vision of redemption |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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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 |
9780803267657 |
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0803267657 |
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