Late

by Woloch, Cecilia

• ISBN13: 9781929918423
• ISBN10: 1929918429
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Boa Editions

Summary

Woloch's poems are devotional and incantatory--prayers spoken to, and on behalf of, a difficult world.

Table of Contents

I.
Aubade	15	(1)
Bareback Pantoum	16	(2)
Hades	18	(1)
My Mother's Birds	19	(1)
Blink.	20	(1)
Après la Lune de Miel	21	(1)
Shemoneh 'Esreh	22	(1)
Slow Children at Play	23	(1)
Beauty	24	(2)
Ottava Rima: Lear	26	(1)
My Mother's Pillow	27	(1)
Last Words	28	(1)
Pour Vivienne	29	(1)
All Hallow's Eve	30	(1)
Nocturne	31	(1)
After World	32	(3)
II.
The Passionate Suitcase	35	(1)
Red Curtains	36	(3)
Filth	39	(1)
Forty-three Rue de Saintonge	40	(1)
And Here's to You, Jesus Robinson	41	(2)
Dzien Dobry	43	(3)
Proposals	46	(1)
Grass Widow	47	(1)
The River Esk	48	(1)
Lasswade, Midlothian: Dusk	49	(1)
"Whose Shadow Has Been Lifted like a Mute Veil from the World"	50	(3)
III.
Custom	53	(1)
The Hammock	54	(1)
Hex	55	(1)
1978	56	(1)
Los Niños	57	(1)
East India Grill Villanelle	58	(1)
Happy Birthday, Wherever You Are	59	(1)
Lament	60	(2)
The Lesser Joys	62	(1)
For Mary, This Valentine's Day	63	(1)
Blazon	64	(1)
Hymn	65	(1)
Provence	66	(1)
On Faith	67	(1)
How It Works	68	(1)
Waking Elsewhere	69	(1)
Late	70	(3)
Acknowledgments	73	(2)
About the Author	75	(5)
Colophon	80