Archetypal Light

by Dodd, Elizabeth Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780874173659
• ISBN10: 0874173655
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr

Summary

Elizabeth Dodd's poetry explores both the history of places and how language's living presence becomes an inhabitant of locales as well.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
The Cave	1	(1)
Variations on the Horizontal	2	(5)
In the Dream I Am	7	(3)
Taphonomy	10	(1)
Lake Florissant	11	(2)
At Scott's Bluff, Nebraska	13	(1)
Imagining the Journey West	14	(1)
Virginia Rail	15	(2)
The Door	17	(3)
Prairie Hills in Snow	20	(2)
North	22	(2)
The Hudson River School	24	(2)
Depth Image	26	(1)
Within the Bright Potential	27	(2)
As It Happens This Morning	29	(1)
Archetypal Light	30	(2)
Southerly	32	(2)
Bicycling in the Great Salt Marsh	34	(1)
Form and Theory	35	(2)
Catastrophism	37	(2)
Triptych: Jump Studies	39	(4)
The Labrador Duck	43	(2)
Corduroy Road	45	(2)
The Route	47	(7)
Blackjack	54	(2)
The Work	56	(2)
American Dipper	58	(2)
Jim Bachae's New Hip	60	(2)
Parietal	62	(2)
Aesthetics and Necessity	64	(3)
Western Grebe in Mountain Light	67	(1)
Northwest Passage	68	(1)
Into These Places	69	(5)
Fauve	74	(1)
Slow Air	75	(4)
The Blue of the Mussel Shell	79