The Music We Dance to: Poems

by Seiferle, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9781878818768
• ISBN10: 1878818767
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of New England

Summary

New Mexican, with a place in American poetry fused to Latin American tradition, Rebecca Seiferle is a poet of enormous range. In her second collection, she writes of family life and human tragedy, of ancient myth and Native American sources. This is a poetry of compassion and intensity--fierce and unflinching in its level of inquiry.

Table of Contents

Exegesis	3	(38)
A Broken Crown of Sonnets for My Father's Forehead	7	(34)
The Visitation	17	(1)
Great Circle	18	(2)
The Ditch	20	(1)
No Earthly Locale	21	(1)
Singular Cherubim	22	(1)
The Burning	23	(2)
The Month of the Dead	25	(1)
The Music We Dance To	26	(2)
Cockroach Heaven	28	(1)
The Harrowing	29	(3)
The Crossing	32	(1)
The Last of the Goat Milk Soap	33	(2)
Transfiguration	35	(1)
The Parable of the Father	36	(2)
Lemon Pine	38	(3)
Pigdog	41	(34)
Proud Flesh	43	(32)
Welcome to Ithaca	53	(1)
Divided Continent	54	(3)
Birth of the White Buffalo	57	(1)
The Illusory and the True	58	(2)
The Catch	60	(1)
Original Darkness	61	(2)
27 November 1992	63	(1)
The Disbudding	64	(2)
Peaceable Kingdom	66	(1)
In the Ruins	67	(2)
Returning Home	69	(1)
Boy With Snake	70	(1)
Eating of the Tree of Life	71	(2)
The Scent of the Skin	73	(2)
To the Muses	75	(24)
In the Shadow of Chronos	77	(22)
Hymn to Aphrodite	81	(1)
The Book Breaks Open	82	(2)
Almost Grown	84	(1)
How to Speak in Babylon	85	(1)
Every Scrap of Paper	86	(1)
The Kingdom of Fear	87	(2)
Heart's Chord	89	(1)
Ginevra d'Benci	90	(2)
Mother Tongue	92	(1)
Fear Is the Mother of the Mind	93	(6)
Mythos	99	(2)
Notes	101	(1)
Biographical Note	102