Blue Venus PA

by Spaar,Lisa Russ

• ISBN13: 9780892553068
• ISBN10: 0892553065
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-17
• Publisher: PERSEA

Summary

In Blue Venus, Lisa Russ Spaar explores the intimate relationship between the sensual and the sacred. Her nocturnal poems weave themselves into the very fabric of private fervorlyric, sexual, spiritualbeginning with "Dusk" and continuing on until "Dawn." Fierce and giving, Spaar's exquisite verse isolates essential moments of vulnerability and wonder. A series on insomniain the voices of some notable insomniacsis among the most moving extended sequences in recent memory. Elsewhere, she traces poetry back to its primordial rootsprayer, lullabye, mourning, exaltation. Propelled throughout by a resolute belief in the relationship between the human and the cosmic Blue Venus is "a brilliant new star in poetry's firmament" (Carol Muske-Dukes).

Author Biography

Lisa Russ Spaar directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia.

Table of Contents

1
Feast of the Veiled Venus	3	(2)
Dusk	5	(1)
Sky	6	(1)
Lure Blue	7	(1)
Wind	8	(1)
Psalm	9	(1)
Bayberry	10	(2)
Insomnia with William Blake	12	(1)
Mimosa	13	(1)
Wild Cherry	14	(1)
Storm	15	(1)
The Insomnia of Mesmer	16	(1)
August	17	(4)
2
Nocturne	21	(1)
Lament	22	(1)
Rain	23	(1)
Red Maple	24	(1)
The Insomnia of Murasaki Shikibu	25	(3)
Queen Anne's Lace	28	(1)
The Insomnia of Thomas Merton	29	(3)
Lullabye	32	(1)
The Insomnia of Thomas Edison	33	(2)
Hiatus	35	(1)
Apocrypha	36	(1)
The Insomnia of Adam	37	(1)
Advent	38	(1)
New Year's Eve	39	(1)
The Insomnia of Virginia Woolf	40	(2)
Valentine	42	(1)
The Insomnia of Dorothy Wordsworth	43	(3)
Mourning	46	(3)
3
Self-Portrait	49	(1)
Penance I	50	(1)
Penance II	51	(1)
Penance III	52	(1)
Penance IV	53	(2)
Penance V	55	(1)
The Insomnia of Hildegard of Bingen	56	(2)
Holy Week: Illuminations	58	(4)
Fairy Tale	62	(1)
A Late Spring	63	(2)
Feast of the Mockingbird	65	(1)
The Way	66	(1)
Adagio	67	(1)
The Lesson	68	(1)
Dawn	69