An Unkindness of Ravens: Poems

by Kearney, Meg

• ISBN13: 9781929918096
• ISBN10: 1929918097
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

In An Unkindness of Ravens, Meg Kearney's poems weave voices of estrangement and redemption: mothers, daughters, lovers of gin and dead things. In the middle poems, the protagonist confronts "Raven": a figure of guises and disguises, revealing the speaker's fears and angst. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet Donald Hall has written the Foreword. Meg Kearney is the Associate Director of the National Book Foundation. She was the recipient of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and New York Times fellowships and received the Alice M. Sellers Academy of American Poets Prize in 1998. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Foreword	13	(4)
Donald Hall
An Unkindness of Ravens
Longing	17	(1)
Gin	18	(1)
Anything Else	19	(1)
A Therapist Invites Me to Visit My Inner Child	20	(1)
On Second Thought	21	(2)
Loneliness	23	(1)
Family Vacation	24	(1)
Antidote	25	(2)
The Prodigal Daughter	27	(2)
Home Movies	29	(1)
Silence	30	(1)
New York	31	(1)
The Trouble with Creation	32	(1)
Bash Bish Falls	33	(1)
Tea	34	(2)
Learning to Speak	36	(1)
Swan Song	37	(1)
Mrs. Plu, Outside the Library, with the Candlestick	38	(1)
Fortune-Teller	39	(4)
Redemption Arcade
Curse	43	(1)
Spending the Evening with Raven	44	(1)
What She Told Me	45	(1)
Dreaming of Raven	46	(1)
Redemption Arcade	47	(1)
Martini Angel	48	(1)
Encounter	49	(1)
What the Dream Reveals to Him	50	(3)
Adoptive Measures
Love Is a Form of Recklessness	53	(2)
La Belle Dame sans Merci	55	(1)
The Prodigal Mother	56	(1)
Violet	57	(1)
She Tries to Go to Confession	58	(1)
What It's Like	59	(2)
Sculpture of Gulls	61	(1)
14th Street	62	(2)
Why God Asked Solomon the Question, and Not Me	64	(1)
Bonsai	65	(2)
Prologue to True Love: Chopin's Waltz in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2	67	(1)
Doppelganger	68	(1)
Falling in Love at the Aquarium	69	(1)
Ticket	70	(1)
Elegy for the Prodigal Mother	71	(1)
Creed	72	(3)
Notes and Dedications	75	(1)
Acknowledgments	76	(1)
About the Author	77