The Burning Point

by Richey, Frances

• ISBN13: 9781893996717
• ISBN10: 1893996719
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

"Relentlessly heartfelt and stringently beautiful, Frances Richey's poems recall us to a cycle we should never forget: the only way into the world is through the family; the only way into the family is through the self; the only way into the self is through the world. On page after page . . . we confront words born of necessity: nothing trivial or tossed off, everything wrenched and crafted from the rock of felt thought. The realms of other art-Renoir, Giacometti, Vermeer-feed Richey's perception, but she never forgets her obligation to have her own difficult making be foremost."-Stephen Corey

Table of Contents

I.
Sitting With Renoirs: A Young Girl With Daisies	11	(1)
Pictures	12	(2)
Walking Man	14	(4)
In My Mother's Story	18	(4)
In Her Own Words	22	(2)
Child	24	(1)
Time Song	25	(2)
Even Though I Am Not Alone	27	(10)
II.
Winter Fields	37	(1)
The Last Day	38	(2)
I Loved	40	(2)
Polaroid	42	(1)
Lovers In Blue	43	(1)
Sitting With Renoirs: By The Seashore	44	(8)
Flower Journal	52	(4)
Trodden Weed	56	(5)
III.
Nudes And Bathers	61	(3)
I Was Not Forgiving	64	(3)
On The Top Of Burnt Head	67	(3)
Thursday, Broke	70	(1)
The Model	71	(2)
My Body Is Home	73	(2)
The Ray	75	(1)
Christmas At Mother's House In Winterhaven	76	(7)
IV.
Woman Holding A Balance	83	(3)
The Yoga Lesson	86	(2)
The Movies	88	(3)
Sitting With Renoirs: Bather Arranging Her Hair	91	(3)
Christ In The House Of Mary And Martha	94	(3)
The Chariot	97	(3)
Wind From The Sea	100	(2)
The Return	102	(3)
The Author	105	(2)
Notes on the Poems	107