Door Upon Door

by Austin, Annemarie

• ISBN13: 9781852244590
• ISBN10: 1852244593
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Dufour Editions

Summary

These vividly imaginative poems open doors to other worlds and other lives. Austin draws upon her own memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history, and literature. In this book, there are doorways to linger in. One door lets in the dark, another is the way under the hill; there may be a wrong door and a right one. Language itself can be a door that lets you enter or bars the way. A fable maker, hers is a poetry of parts held together by powerfully imagined dream associations.

Table of Contents

The Indigo Bedspread	p. 9
Watershed	p. 11
Marriage	p. 12
Revenants	p. 14
Foreground	p. 15
The Sand Spring	p. 17
Under Glass	p. 18
Hammershoi's Rooms	p. 19
The Painter's Wife	p. 20
Marthe	p. 21
'Still Life with a Pewter Flagon'	p. 22
The Statues	p. 23
Nineteen Fifty-Six	p. 24
Bystanding	p. 26
Verdure Tapestry	p. 27
Arkadia	p. 28
The Harpies	p. 29
Speech for Grendel's Mother	p. 30
A Shape of Ice	p. 32
Tiger-Taming	p. 33
Handling	p. 34
Archangel with a Gun	p. 35
Merely	p. 36
Chiaroscuro	p. 37
Madonna del Parto	p. 38
Couvade	p. 39
Flight	p. 40
Swaddled	p. 41
Pyramid	p. 42
'My Mother Had a Maid Called Barbary...'	p. 43
Translation	p. 44
The Appalling Jasmine	p. 45
Bedsides	p. 46
Language	p. 48
Another Language	p. 49
Ghosts	p. 50
Reaped	p. 51
Century	p. 52
Iconography	p. 55
Afterlives	p. 56
The Dry Mermaid	p. 57
The Building	p. 58
Lesson	p. 59
Heart's Delight	p. 61
Return	p. 62
Diptych	p. 63
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