The End of the Alphabet; Poems

by Claudia Rankine

• ISBN13: 9780802116345
• ISBN10: 0802116345
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1998-09-14
• Publisher: Grove Press

Summary

These poems - intrepid, obsessive, and erotic - tell the story of a woman's attempt to overcome despair. Claudia Rankine, whose first collection was the prize-winning Nothing in Nature is Private, creates a transfixing testimonial to a woman facing her own disease. Drawing on voices from Jane Eyre to Lady MacBeth, Rankine welds the cerebral and the spiritual, the sensual and the grotesque, courting paradox into the center of her voice.

Table of Contents

Overview is a place	1	(6)
Elsewhere, things tend	7	(6)
Testimonial	13	(8)
Toward biography	21	(12)
Hunger to the table	33	(8)
Extent and root of	41	(12)
Residual in the hour	53	(12)
Dirtied up	65	(6)
Where is the sea?	71	(8)
Cast away moan	79	(6)
In this sense, beyond	85	(10)
The quotidian	95