Slope of the Child Everlasting

by Kutchins, Laurie

• ISBN13: 9781929918911
• ISBN10: 1929918917
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Boa Editions

Summary

Slope of the Child Everlasting sustains the lyric and imagistic sensibility of Laurie Kutchins' previous poetry collection, The Night Path (BOA Editions, 1997), while expanding on its exploration of the archetypes that anchor the heart and mind of her poetry. The characters in these poems evoke chaos and regression, as well as song, wonder, and the tenacity of the imagination. Laurie Kutchins is an associate professor of English at James Madison University in Virginia. She lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and spends her summers along the Wyoming-Idaho border. The Night Path won the 1997 Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions.

Table of Contents

Togwotee	p. 11
Song of the turtle unburrowing	p. 12
Skin	p. 15
April nights	p. 16
The voice outside	p. 17
Whisper	p. 20
River keeper	p. 22
Poppies	p. 23
The first time I saw my father cry	p. 24
Last gift	p. 26
Clothesline	p. 27
Bedroom beside a field	p. 30
Old man's song for the coming of fall	p. 32
September fever	p. 34
Child's song for the end of summer	p. 35
Mountain train	p. 36
Mount Zion road	p. 37
The light we winter under	p. 39
Wind of my childhood in the night	p. 41
Under the risings	p. 43
Song for the coming of winter	p. 45
A visit with Jackson Pollock in January	p. 46
Waking	p. 49
Song of the nesting doll	p. 51
White road with swan	p. 53
Snowstorm	p. 55
The laurel	p. 57
What death is keeps changing	p. 58
Song for the owl and blind man	p. 61
Overheard in an orchard	p. 62
The college's copy of The bell jar	p. 63
Accomplishment	p. 65
Failure	p. 66
Joy	p. 67
The desert where you began	p. 69
Desert grace	p. 70
Santuario	p. 72
Avocado	p. 73
To the flowering dogwood	p. 75
Molt	p. 76
Visitant	p. 77
Ten seconds in early spring	p. 79
After winter	p. 81
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