The Storm That Tames Us

by Gregorio, Renee

• ISBN13: 9781888809169
• ISBN10: 1888809167
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: LA Alameda Pr

Summary

The rich, lyrical poetry of Renee Gregorio's second collection echoes the impassioned tradition of Mirabai, Yosano Akiko, and Anne Sexton. Gregorio is comfortable with a wide range of poetic possibility, working with traditional forms such as haiku, tanka, ghazal, and villanelle as well as with the prose poem and experimentations with lyric poetry. Her subject matter is equally diverse, encompassing the actual and philosophical "other," social doubt, love, the natural world, death, the Japanese martial art Aikido, and a sense of the deep significance of place, whether that place is the Southwest, London, a barrio, a mountain village, or simply the sense that one can achieve one's own center, no matter where.

Table of Contents

Moving to Light	p. 13
This Harsh Desire for Other	p. 15
Love's a Shock	p. 17
Triangle of Light	p. 20
Bloom	p. 21
God Went Away for the Winter, She Said	p. 23
The Long Hill of Garrapata	p. 24
Reincarnate	p. 26
Five Seasons	p. 27
Islands of Contained Light	p. 28
The Breath Inside the Breath	p. 29
Existential Saturday	p. 31
The Angel Tells Me	p. 32
The Remedy	p. 34
Dog Bite	p. 35
Embracing the Ordinary	p. 36
Two Floating Shapes	p. 37
Aiki	p. 38
The Other Voices	p. 39
Phases of Moonlight	p. 40
Da Molto Lontano	p. 42
Raking the Wild	p. 44
Solitude Dinner	p. 46
Resolution	p. 48
Crazy Priscilla's Lover	p. 50
Crazy Priscilla Goes to Confession	p. 51
Crazy Priscilla, Clairvoyant	p. 52
Crazy Priscilla Talks Directly to God	p. 53
Gladiola	p. 55
The Painted and the Real	p. 56
The Storm That Tames Us	p. 58
The Beginning Island	p. 61
Rites	p. 62
Leaving the Fields of Hydrangeas	p. 63
The Splitting of the Domestic	p. 64
The Fire Notebooks	p. 67
Leaving a Trace	p. 72
Legacy	p. 74
Ghazal for October's End	p. 75
Pulling Vinca	p. 76
Fragile Quartet	p. 78
Whatever Is	p. 80
Returning to Center	p. 82
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