Falling Out of the Sky

by Pope, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780807123607
• ISBN10: 0807123609
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

While the poems of Deborah Pope's latest collection, Falling Out of the Sky, are rooted in the here and now -- the place where tables are set, children play, and empty cans collect -- they are also suffused with a spirit of transfiguration and the miraculous. They map an earthy, palpable, yet oddly luminous landscape that embraces our most intimate relationships with lovers, relatives, and the body itself. Ranging over this terrain that is at once familiar and fearsome, Pope engages difficult questions and complex emotions, hard truths and fierce connections.

Table of Contents

I
Lines from the Book of Days	3	(3)
Reckonings	6	(2)
Plainspoken	8	(3)
Mother-Right	11	(2)
Bad Child	13	(2)
Pantoum for a Child in Fall	15	(2)
Night Thoughts for an Old Love	17	(1)
The Woman Question	18	(2)
Exotic Nights at the Savoy;or, A Brief History of British Imperialism	20	(2)
The City of Heaven	22	(3)
Cura Animarum Outside Canaan, West Virginia	25	(4)
II
It Was	29	(1)
The Call	30	(2)
Mammogram	32	(2)
Biopsy	34	(1)
Faces in the Frame	35	(1)
In Dark Weather	36	(2)
Flight	38	(2)
In the Room of Shadows	40	(1)
Playing It Out	41	(2)
Morning After	43	(1)
Pavane for Sleeping Children	44	(2)
Mappamundi	46	(3)
III THE ANGEL POEMS
Tesserae, for Grief	49	(5)
The First Lesson	54	(1)
The Second Lesson: Desire	55	(2)
The Third Lesson: Betrayal	57	(1)
The Fourth Lesson: Regret	58	(1)
The Fifth lesson: Abandonment	59	(1)
The Sixth Lesson: Exile	60	(2)
The Seventh Lesson: Return	62	(1)
The Last Lesson	63	(1)
The Angel Yet to Come	64