Blessed Resistance : Poems

by Logghe, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780933553132
• ISBN10: 0933553137
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Blessed Resistance is a triptych of poems focusing in turn on culture, family, and the personal landscape of marriage. With a wild and carefully crafted voice Logghe tackles the unspeakable beauty of northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley, confronting the resistance to entering this unique territory as an outsider.

These poems were fifteen years in the making and bring us an author who embraces with grace and respect the community and terrain that she has inhabited and that has come to inhabit her.

Table of Contents

I. SACRED GROUND
Something Like Marriage	11	(2)
Nambe Pantoum	13	(2)
Espanola	15	(1)
Espanola Pantoum	16	(2)
But Espanola	18	(2)
Return to Espanola	20	(2)
La Puebla	22	(2)
Stolen Landscape	24	(2)
Finally Present	26	(2)
Driving North	28	(1)
Marriage of Heaven and Hell in Espanola	29	(2)
Summer Mysteries	31	(1)
Waxing New Mexican	32	(1)
Land Grant	33	(2)
Visions and Ristras	35	(2)
New Mexican Angels	37	(2)
Christ in the Desert Monastery	39	(2)
Her First Jew	41	(2)
Insomnia Litany	43	(2)
Tashlich at Embudo Crossing	45	(2)
Troubadour for Peace	47	(2)
Alone in April	49	(3)
II. WHIRLWIND OF BEAUTY
Annunciation	52	(2)
Surrender	54	(1)
Piercing	55	(1)
At a Wedding	56	(1)
Catalpa	57	(1)
Between Features	58	(1)
Art and Teenagers	59	(2)
High School Graduation Pantoum	61	(2)
A Giant Beauty	63	(1)
Quatrains for Cornia	64	(2)
Daughter at College	66	(2)
Outside Pagosa Springs	68	(3)
Valentines for Soldiers	71	(1)
Velvet	72	(1)
Daughter in Summer	73	(2)
To My Teenage Son	75	(3)
III. NO CURRENCY BUT LOVE
Vexations	78	(1)
Miraculous Pantoum	79	(1)
How to Improvise Rain	80	(2)
Ghost Town	82	(1)
This Time	83	(2)
Reminiscence About the Present	85	(1)
Making Ends Meet	86	(1)
Finishing Touches	87	(1)
Simplicity	88	(2)
The New Field	90	(1)
Speaking of Happiness	91	(2)
Another Fiesta	93	(2)
Qualicum	95	(2)
Leaving Seattle	97	(1)
After Our Silver Anniversary	98	(2)
I Thought It Was My Heart	100	(2)
Late Vows	102	(1)
Gesticulations	103	(2)
Blessing	105