Refusing Despair

by Anderson, Teresa

• ISBN13: 9780975348680
• ISBN10: 097534868X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-30
• Publisher: West End Pr

Summary

The dignity and clarity of the work of Teresa Anderson are apparent in this fondly selected volume.

Table of Contents

Speaking in Sign (1979)
Delphine: The Return	p. 2
Our People	p. 4
Alone after Sixty Years	p. 5
Woman's Blues Okie Style	p. 6
May in the Deep South	p. 7
The Distant Light	p. 8
Meeting Lovers in Early Fall	p. 9
Speaking in Sign	p. 10
Rites de Passage	p. 12
For Denis	p. 13
The Secret Room	p. 14
A Call for the Destruction of Nixon, Pablo Neruda (translation, 1980)
I Begin by Invoking Walt Whitman	p. 16
I Call upon You	p. 17
I Remain Here	p. 18
Come with Me	p. 19
Reading Quevedo by the Sea	p. 20
Fertile Are These Bones (manuscript, 1982)
Poems of Exile
Remember the Land	p. 22
Nowhere Dream	p. 25
Pilgrimage	p. 26
Cry for a Lost Lover	p. 28
Requiem for the Fathers	p. 29
Poem to Be Sung to No One	p. 30
After Divorce	p. 32
Letter to a Wife	p. 34
Poems of Return
Ruby	p. 35
Song for Mary	p. 38
Lorca in San Antonio	p. 40
Por las Calles (In the Streets)	p. 42
Lament for the Children	p. 45
San Antonio Women	p. 47
To a Lover of Trees, Restless Water and Bones	p. 50
Nacimiento	p. 52
Now in Fading Light (new writings, 1992-1999)
These May Evenings	p. 54
"What does God do up there on his throne"	p. 55
Knowing & Not Knowing	p. 56
Methodist Hospital Poems
Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y.	p. 57
An Old Robe Arrives at Methodist Hospital	p. 58
To the Members of the Literary Club	p. 59
For My Students - Seniors at the Hudson School	p. 60
Russian Socks Arrive in Intensive Care	p. 61
January Birds	p. 62
Reading My Mother's Betty Crocker Cookbook	p. 63
Memory of Drowning	p. 66
Goldfinch Spirit on Wall Street	p. 68
Scary Big C Poems
Mishap on the Road to Denial	p. 70
Dramatic Rescue	p. 70
The Cancer Ward and the Knife	p. 71
In the Chamber of Green Fire	p. 72
Before and After	p. 73
Walking behind My Father	p. 73
Green Valley	p. 74
Before Dawn	p. 76
Driving through Backroads Pennsylvania	p. 77
Gathering Wild Grapes	p. 78
Weekday Morning, 4 A.M.	p. 80
Refusing Despair (poems, 2003-2005)
One for the Dragon	p. 82
Looking at a New Grandson	p. 85
A Gardener Remembers	p. 86
Victor: It's Your Stadium Now	p. 88
During a Wintry Week in July	p. 89
Wilson Hospital Poems
Refusing Despair	p. 90
Mike	p. 91
Stitches	p. 92
Abundance	p. 93
Bastille Day	p. 94
Two Hospital Haiku	p. 95
Enforced Protestant Bullshit	p. 96
Journals (2004-2005)
"Now is the winter of our discontent"	p. 97
"My father is a summer person"	p. 98
Refusing Despair, first draft	p. 100
Questions for the Nursing Home	p. 101
"Things taken for granted"	p. 101
"N. gives her instructions"	p. 102
"Well, an assessment of sorts"	p. 103
"Mornings here are the hardest"	p. 103
"Mornings are hard"	p. 104
"I watch every morning"	p. 105
"Hope Dies Last, Studs Terkel's recent book"	p. 105
"My body is a trial"	p. 106
"Dear Dad"	p. 107
"This Christmas"	p. 108
Postscript	p. 109
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