Restoring the Wickedness

by Tihanyi, Eva

• ISBN13: 9781894345101
• ISBN10: 189434510X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Utp Distribution

Summary

This innovative new collection of lyric poetry explores women's history and contemporary issues from a feminist perspective that balances the stark realities of modern alienation and disenfranchisement with a keen eye for possibilities of redemption and renewal. At times Tihanyi uses gaps in the oldest Biblical texts surrounding Eden and the Fall to restore a female version of history long ignored, while other poems address how these same issues influence and invest our daily lives.

Table of Contents

Everything Old Is New Again
Lilith Enters the Book of Quotations	p. 11
Mixing the Myths	p. 12
Lilith's Advice to Persephone	p. 15
Adam's Wives	p. 16
Continuing Education	p. 17
Eve Dreams Herself Forward	p. 18
Eve Re-evaluates Her Nemesis	p. 19
Lilith Takes Up Residence	p. 20
Barbie's Father Has a Nightmare	p. 21
At the Bar: Girls' Night Out	p. 22
Lilith Re-converts a Former Lover	p. 23
Eve Sees Herself Mirrored	p. 24
A Revisionist Version of the First Love Triangle	p. 25
Eve Fixates on the Letter "A"	p. 26
Lilith's Song	p. 27
Pandora's Box	p. 28
Let Us Prepare Mythologies
The Writing Life	p. 30
Language Lesson	p. 31
Handwriting	p. 32
She Considers Stars	p. 33
George Faludy's Living Room, Circa 1986	p. 34
R.E.M. Sleep, Canadian Style	p. 35
Lady Caroline Lamb	p. 36
Anais Nin Comes Clean	p. 37
The Birth of Frida Kahlo	p. 38
Kindred Spirit	p. 39
Renaissance Masterpiece	p. 40
Janis Joplin Would Have Loved You	p. 41
Idiot Savant	p. 42
Daughter	p. 43
Not Every Woman Adores a Fascist	p. 44
Kissing	p. 45
The Stuff of Legends	p. 46
A Feast of Sparrows	p. 47
My Grandmother Remembers the Gabor Sisters	p. 48
In the Beginning	p. 49
Imperative	p. 50
My Grandmother's Gloves	p. 51
Grandmother	p. 52
Committing Love
Beginning at Zero	p. 54
Fool's Journey	p. 55
Harvest Moon	p. 56
Sun on Water	p. 57
Word Play	p. 58
First Friends	p. 59
What We Take With Us	p. 60
Helen's Room	p. 61
Old Friends	p. 63
Elk Lake Revisited	p. 64
Berry Picking	p. 65
First Meeting	p. 66
Pearl	p. 67
I Send You	p. 68
In This Dream	p. 69
Cats	p. 70
Choice	p. 71
A Matter of Perception	p. 72
Gift	p. 73
Paradox	p. 74
Hands	p. 75
Ideal Motion	p. 78
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