Mortal World: Poems

by Pope, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780807119846
• ISBN10: 0807119849
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

These are poems about beginnings and endings, written from the emotional center of experience.

Table of Contents

Leaving	p. 1
Beginning	p. 5
Forecast	p. 6
On the Shore	p. 7
Bloodspell	p. 8
Aubade	p. 11
Radiant Season	p. 12
Sunday, Villefranche	p. 13
The Summer I Was Pregnant	p. 14
This Time, This June	p. 16
Scientists Search Burial Vault for Seventeenth-Century Air	p. 17
Speaking of Light	p. 19
These Days	p. 21
Walking Out	p. 22
Hotel, River View	p. 25
Sunrise, Interchange, Ithaca	p. 27
Picture on the River Cherwell	p. 28
Departure, Nice	p. 30
Les Voyeurs	p. 32
There Is No One to Tell This Story To	p. 34
Brush Clearing	p. 36
Killing the Copperheads	p. 38
Accident	p. 40
In the Parking Lot of the County Regional Hospital	p. 41
Turning Point	p. 43
In the Night of the Heart	p. 44
Resolution	p. 46
Circle of Night	p. 51
The Last Animal Dies in the Sarajevo Zoo	p. 53
"Refugees Flee Advancing Army"	p. 55
The Moment at Hand	p. 57
As the Children's Carpool Departs	p. 59
Two in the Moon	p. 60
What Is Last	p. 61
What Is Left to Tell	p. 62
Even in Dreams You Lie to Me	p. 63
Getting Through	p. 64
July, Carolina	p. 65
Intermezzo	p. 66
Boy Blowing Bubbles	p. 67
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