Way of Whiteness

by Barker, Wendy

• ISBN13: 9780930324551
• ISBN10: 0930324552
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Wings Press

Summary

Deeply personal as well as visionary and funny, this collection is reminiscent of both Plath and Thoreau.

Author Biography

Wendy Barker is the author of numerous books of poetry and criticism and is an acclaimed critic of Emily Dickinson. She is also a Fulbright lecturer, award-winning translator, and NEA fellow.

Table of Contents

I CEREMONIES
Taking a Language	5	(3)
Matter of Singing	8	(2)
Some Days the Only	10	(1)
Of Mice and Men	11	(3)
Stylist	14	(2)
Color Analysis	16	(2)
The Bottom	18	(2)
Olympic Trials	20	(2)
On the Subject of Jackets	22	(2)
Ceremonies for the Dead	24	(5)
II ANNUNCIATIONS
Generation	29	(2)
In Venice the Travellers	31	(2)
Ithaca, on the Landing	33	(3)
Facing Masks	36	(3)
The Face That	39	(1)
The Judgment, Aphrodite Speaks	40	(2)
Mermaids, the Singing	42	(3)
Annunciations	45	(6)
III WAY OF WHITENESS
Eclipse	51	(3)
Liquid Poem	54	(1)
At 50, Choosing New Make-Up	55	(2)
Practicality, Foam, and Nighties	57	(1)
Reason of Lace	58	(3)
Perennial	61	(3)
Inheritance	64	(1)
Picnic Makings	65	(2)
Eating San Gimignano	67	(2)
Walking with You	69	(2)
Way of Whiteness	71
Acknowledgements
About the Author