Grace Bauer

Unholy Heart

New and Selected Poems

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Produktbeschreibung

Unholy Heart is a collection of Grace Bauer’s best selected poems, marking her twenty-five years as an award-winning poet.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Backwaters Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9781496225948
• ISBN-10: 1496225945
• Artikelnr.: 60982359

Autorenporträt

Grace Bauer is the Aaron Douglas Emeritus Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the award-winning author of numerous books of poetry, including MEAN/TIME, The Women At the Well, Nowhere All at Once, Retreats and Recognitions, and Beholding Eye.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments    
From The Women at the Well
Eve Recollecting the Garden    
Noah’s Wife Addresses the Department of the Interior    
Lot’s Daughters Bent on Revenge    
Ruth: On Wandering. On Wonder.    
Judith Dreaming of Her General    
Mary Recalling Bethlehem    
Anne: On the Darkness in Daughters    
Salome: The Choreography of Guilt    
The Prodigal Daughter’s Girl    
Pilate’s Wife Welcoming Nightmare    
Martha to Mary: The Quotidian Demands of the Flesh    
Mary to Martha: The Theological Insignificance of Dust    
Mary Magdalene’s Chapter and Verse    
Mary: A Confession and Complaint    
The Women at the Well    
From Retreats & Recognitions
Note from the Imaginary Daughter    
Norma Jean Dreams a Blonde Finale    
A Little Like Dorothy    
Retreat    
Modern Clothing    
Theadosia Comes to the New World    
Plot Lines    
Fat Tuesday    
Second Lining at My Own Jazz Funeral    
Star    
Latter Day Saints    
Extreme Unction    
Midlife Heavy Metal    
On Finding a Footnote to Truckin’    
Broke Down Palace    
Lunacy    
Geography Lessons    
From Beholding Eye
Portraits of the Rich    
Large Bathers    
Mrs. Eakins’s Final Touches    
Frida Digresses on Red    
Room in New York    
Birthday    
Georgia, at Ninety, Learns to Make a Vessel    
The Eye of the Beholder    
Descending Nude    
Rrose Sélavy No Longer Sings La Vie en Rose    
Marcel Meets Georgia at 291    
Where You’ve Seen Her    
Her Search for Great Causes    
Her Great Escape    
For Her Villain    
She Has Days    
From Nowhere All At Once
Nowhere All At Once    
Sight/Seeing    
Great Plains Prayer    
Revenant    
Against Lawn    
The Bat    
Gray Ghazal    
Our Waitress’s Marvelous Legs    
The Persistent Popularity of Angels    
Two for The Bard and Bob Wood    
Unrepentant Prayer    
Off the Map    
Still Life in Red    
Flicker    
Against Prayer    
Corson’s Inlet    
From MEAN/TIME
A Riff on the Glyph(s)     
Conditional    
MEAN/TIME    
“Books Become Windows”     
Still Life as Oxymoron    
Torsos    
The Wandering Dream    
Momentous    
Against Proof    
Fret    
Sad September Song    
Dyslexical    
Caw    
Means of Transport    
Dusting the Angel    
Glimpse    
New Poems
Fado    
Terminal Grief    
Sustenance    
Provisions for the Journey    
Prayer    
Father, Faltering    
Doldrums    
Unspeakable Elegy    
Mother, May I    
Terminal Beauty    
All My Dead Say Grace    
Highway 2 Mirage    
Not Quite Nirvana    
Update on Emily    
Notes