Earth Elegy : New and Selected Poems

by Gibson, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780807121467
• ISBN10: 0807121460
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Summary

'Wonderful strong lyric poems, veined with sharp and striking insights and sure continuities that ground us in the implacability of earth and life, eros and spiritual longing.' --Peter Matthiessen

Table of Contents

Stubborn	p. 3
Earth Elegy	p. 4
Harvest Elegy	p. 6
Solace	p. 8
Grief	p. 10
Riven	p. 11
Elegy to a Sculptor	p. 12
Prayer Ascending, Prayer Descending	p. 19
In the Retreat House of the Virgin Guadalupe	p. 21
At the Ravine	p. 25
Blessing	p. 27
Chayote	p. 29
In the Sweet Grass Hills	p. 31
Indian Graves	p. 34
Core	p. 36
Sycamores	p. 38
Crossing the Ohio at Sistersville	p. 40
Clarity	p. 41
So Entirely Vivid	p. 43
To Say Nothing of God	p. 45
Resolutions	p. 51
Home Ground	p. 53
Kate	p. 57
Jennie	p. 59
Sarah	p. 60
Lila's Dream	p. 76
A Ripple of Deer, a Metamorphosis of Bear, a Metaphor of Mountains	p. 81
Green Pepper	p. 82
Garlic	p. 83
In the Field	p. 85
Doing Nothing	p. 87
In the Desert	p. 88
Keeping Still	p. 93
In Here	p. 94
Out in the Open	p. 96
In the Woods	p. 99
Cactus Blooms	p. 101
Beginner's Mind	p. 102
Making Salad	p. 104
Stalking the Light	p. 105
In the Mountains	p. 109
Rings of Fire	p. 111
Memories of the Future	p. 117
Doctrines of Glass and Wood	p. 119
Fire Doesn't Die	p. 121
Doors, Opening As They Do	p. 123
Fast Light	p. 126
Darkroom Nights	p. 129
In the Market	p. 131
Vocation	p. 133
Dia de los Muertos	p. 135
What Love Is	p. 138
Maria	p. 139
From a Single Center ...	p. 141
Home	p. 144
Long Walks in the Afternoon	p. 149
The Inheritance	p. 150
The Onion	p. 153
Affirmations	p. 154
Ice Storm	p. 156
To Speak of Chile	p. 157
Burning the Root	p. 158
Unwritten History	p. 159
Radiation	p. 161
October Elegy	p. 163
Country Woman Elegy	p. 165
Unborn Child Elegy	p. 166
Glass Elegy	p. 168
Gemini Elegy	p. 170
Onion Elegy	p. 171
Fire Elegy	p. 173
A Grammar of the Soul	p. 177
Remembering What I Want	p. 179
The Garden	p. 180
A Simple Elegy	p. 187
Signs: A Progress of the Soul	p. 192
In January, One Morning...	p. 200
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