Bitters

by Seiferle, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9781556591686
• ISBN10: 1556591683
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Pr

Summary

Thoughtful textured poems by a poet who is able to fuse the intellectual with the visceral.--"Library Journal"

Table of Contents

Proviso	3	(4)
FACE OF THE LEVIATHAN
Seraphim	7	(1)
Comparative Religion	8	(2)
Fortune-Telling	10	(1)
Parable of Snakes and Stones	11	(2)
The Mythology of Heavenly Messengers	13	(1)
Saint John of the Cross	14	(1)
The Making of Saints	15	(1)
``A lonely man in his greatness''	16	(2)
Ishmael Remembers Abraham	18	(1)
The Face in the Depths of the Desert	19	(1)
Signs and Wonders	20	(2)
If the Shroud of Turin Is a Fake	22	(1)
God, the Gardener	23	(2)
The Writing on the Wall	25	(1)
Bitter Herb	26	(2)
Law of Inertia	28	(1)
The Relic	29	(2)
Face of the Leviathan	31	(6)
VOICE IN THE WHIRLWIND
The City of Brotherly Love Is Neither	37	(2)
Biosphere 2	39	(3)
Galileo Was Finally Buried in the Body of the Church	42	(1)
Widow's Mite	43	(2)
Modus Operandi	45	(1)
Every Consecrated Head	46	(1)
Toledo	47	(1)
Bitter Fruit	48	(1)
My Spanish Children	49	(2)
Homophobia	51	(2)
The Laws of Patrimony	53	(1)
The Custom	54	(2)
Fear-Biter	56	(2)
The Housewarming Gift	58	(4)
In the Village Where You Were Born	62	(1)
The Mortgage	63	(1)
``Animal People''	64	(1)
Voice in the Whirlwind	65	(4)
Between the Imagined and the Real	69	(1)
The Argument	70	(5)
MY MOTHER'S HIP
My Mother's Hip	75	(12)
THE SACRIFICE TREE
At the Beginning	87	(1)
Archaeological Record	88	(2)
The Excavation	90	(1)
Field School	91	(2)
The Discovery	93	(2)
Ceremonial Trash	95	(1)
Room of Dust	96	(1)
The Sacrifice Tree	97	(3)
Heart of the Sky	100	(2)
The Blue Mustard	102	(2)
Daphne: or how the soul falls in love with what it will become	104	(1)
Galileo in the Year 2000	105	(4)
POETE MAUDIT
A History of Romanticism	109	(4)
Poete Maudit	113	(1)
Apocrypha	114	(1)
Babel	115	(1)
Reproach	116	(1)
The Lesson	117	(1)
The Worst Form of Ambition	118	(1)
The Dead Are Translated into Another World	119	(1)
``Let us go then, you and I''	120	(2)
Xena™ in Philadelphia: Isaiah's House	122	(4)
Muse	126	(1)
The Price of Books	127	(2)
The Artist of Willendorf	129	(4)
THE GIFT
The Foundling	133	(1)
Angel Fire	134	(1)
A Dram of Bitters	135	(2)
On a Winter's Night	137	(1)
Gordian Knot	138	(1)
What We Need Words For	139	(1)
The Inheritance	140	(1)
Internal Clock	141	(2)
Voice of the Sphinx	143	(1)
Headlock	144	(1)
The Gift	145	(1)
Caught in the Nets of Illumination	146	(2)
Autochthonic Song	148	(5)
Notes	153	(4)
About the Author	157	(1)
Acknowledgments	158