Luca : Discourse on Life and Death

by Owens, Rochelle; Perloff, Marjorie

• ISBN13: 9781881523123
• ISBN10: 1881523128
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution
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Summary

Poetry. "Owens' theme is that of violation - the violation of one person's space by those who want to control or absorb it, who will not let it be...Owens does not shrink from the violence and horror she finds everywhere around her and which she projects back, most convincingly, into what was supposed to be, according to Burckhardt and Berenson, the ordered and measured world of Renaissance Florence. [Owens'] is a universe of stark gesture, lightning flash, and uncompromising judgment: it is imperative, in her poetic world, to face up to the horror, even as the point of view is flexible enough to avoid all dogmatism" - from Marjorie Perloff's introduction.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(12)
White Cloth	21	(4)
Mona Posing	25	(2)
Scar Tissue	27	(3)
Permanent Supply	30	(1)
The Substitute	31	(6)
Lenny Saying	37	(7)
Artfully Making Up	44	(3)
The Model Relaxes	47	(4)
Mona Poses Instead	51	(7)
Frightened of Exposure	58	(8)
The First Person	66	(9)
Heaps of Heavy Stone	75	(10)
Swaddled in Guiltless Lederhosen	85	(6)
A Lira Here a Lira There	91	(12)
Flora Was Going to Pose	103	(16)
And I Made an Anatomy to See	119	(14)
Pools	133	(3)
Black Chalk	136	(13)
Seeds of Fire	149	(8)
Flora's Labor	157	(9)
Drum and Whistle	166	(9)
Multiplying Death Patterns	175	(4)
Black Stems	179	(9)
A Circular House	188	(9)
Searching America	197	(9)
Reading a Paper	206	(10)
There Was an Island that Was All Gold	216