And Her Soul Out of Nothing

by Davis, Olena Kalytiak

• ISBN13: 9780299157142
• ISBN10: 0299157148
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-15
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Both contemporary and other-worldly, Davis's lyrical poetry is a fearless expression of the spirit which defines the very essence of our beings.

Table of Contents

A Few Words For The Visitor In The Parlor	3	(4)
I'm Only Now Beginning To Answer Your Letter	7	(2)
Like Working At Wal-Mart	9	(1)
Another Underwater Conversation	10	(2)
But, It's Jazz	12	(1)
The Way He Sold It	13	(1)
The Weathered Houses On Ptarmigan Road	14	(2)
Father's Famous Devastation	16	(1)
Who Cares About Aperture	17	(1)
The Outline I Inhabit	18	(2)
Something More Fragile Than This	20	(1)
Moorer Denies Holyfield In Twelve	21	(1)
To Those Capable Of Deriving The Greatest Benefit	22	(1)
Resolutions In A Parked Car	23	(2)
Multilated Versions Of My Personality Write Poems, Treat Me With Irony And Condescension	25	(3)
The Scaffolding Inside You	28	(2)
The Panic Of Birds	30	(1)
Hey Precious, Listen	31	(4)
Thirty Years Rising	35	(2)
Palimpsest	37	(2)
The River Twists Like Lake Shore Drive	39	(1)
Angels And Moths	40	(2)
An Imaginative Study In Degradation	42	(2)
The Unhoused Heart	44	(2)
It's Shaped Like A Fork	46	(1)
Buhrstone	47	(2)
It Was A Coffin That Sang	49	(1)
Saxifrage and Cinquefoil	50	(3)
Klage	53	(1)
Your TV Lit You Like A Roman Candle	54	(1)
The Gauze Of Flowers, A Love Poem	55	(2)
Bitterns, Heronries	57	(1)
In Defense Of Marriage	58	(1)
Ovarian Tree	59	(1)
This Is The Way I Carry Mine	60	(5)
Silkweed	65	(1)
This Cold Way Of Life	66	(1)
A Seasonal Dwelling	67	(1)
Welcome To Lascaux	68	(1)
She Was Just A Sketch	69	(1)
I've Always Been One To Delight In The Misfortunes Of Others	70	(1)
Like Kerosene	71	(1)
The Silt Of Sleep	72	(2)
Logical Games For The Unbeliever	74	(1)
All The Natural Movements Of The Soul	75	(2)
Perhaps By Then You Will No Longer Be In Love	77	(2)
The Eccentric Practices Of Certain Medieval Saints	79	(1)
Should One Prefer Purity To Intensity of Soul?	80	(2)
Sleep Was An Inlet	82	(2)
Around the Edges Of A Cold Cold Day	84	(2)
As Empty As A Church, I Believe I Am A Small Testament To The Failing Relationship Between Space And Light	86	(2)
Postcard	88	(1)
Against Devotion	89	(1)
This Specific Tree	90	(3)
There May Be More Of This World Than Can Possibly Exist	93