Talking to My Body

by Swir, Anna

• ISBN13: 9781556591082
• ISBN10: 155659108X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Pr

Summary

With a critical afterword by Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and National Book Award nominee Leonard Nathan.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
Poems About My Father and My Mother	p. 9
A Cardboard Suitcase	p. 11
My Father Would Recall	p. 12
My Mother, Miss Stasia	p. 13
Soup for the Poor	p. 14
An Artist Moves	p. 15
Before Dawn	p. 16
White Wedding Slippers	p. 17
They Saved Me	p. 18
Three Pieces of Candy	p. 19
I Am Eleven	p. 20
Vacations in Kurpieland	p. 21
My Father's Workshop	p. 22
Christmas Eve	p. 23
He Did Not Jump from the Third Floor	p. 24
Father in Krakow	p. 25
Mother Sings Again	p. 26
Mother Dying	p. 27
She Came to Say Farewell	p. 28
In the Other World	p. 29
Her Death is in Me	p. 30
Calm Down	p. 31
He Sang All His Life	p. 32
Old Madman	p. 34
I Wash the Shirt	p. 35
He Strode Against the Tide	p. 36
A Film About My Father	p. 37
We Survived Them	p. 38
Wind	p. 39
I Am Filled with Love	p. 41
Happiness	p. 42
Woman Unborn	p. 44
Troubles with the Soul at Morning Calisthenics	p. 46
Myself and My Person	p. 47
Maternity	p. 48
A Visit	p. 49
Seventy Years	p. 50
Tears	p. 51
Terminally Ill	p. 52
My Suffering	p. 53
To Be a Woman	p. 55
A Woman Talks to Her Thigh	p. 57
Three Bodies	p. 59
You Are Warm	p. 60
I Sleep in Blue Pajamas	p. 61
What is a Pineal Gland	p. 62
You Sleep	p. 63
Male and Female	p. 64
Tears Stream	p. 65
My Body Effervesces	p. 66
A Bitch	p. 67
A Spring	p. 68
I Cannot	p. 69
Iron Currycomb	p. 70
Go to a Western	p. 72
The Same Inside	p. 73
Large Intestine	p. 74
I'll Open the Window	p. 77
In Railway Stations	p. 78
Nonexistent	p. 79
A Gentle World	p. 80
The Youngest Children of an Angel	p. 81
In a Crimson Gondola	p. 82
The First Madrigal	p. 83
The Second Madrigal	p. 84
An Iron Hedgehog	p. 85
A Plate of Suffering	p. 86
Virginity	p. 88
Happy as a Dog's Tail	p. 91
I Starve My Belly for a Sublime Purpose	p. 92
I Knocked My Head Against the Wall	p. 93
I Say to My Body: You Carcass	p. 94
I Sleep and Snore	p. 95
I Protest	p. 96
Thing Indescribable	p. 97
She Does Not Remember	p. 98
The Greatest Love	p. 99
The Old Woman	p. 100
A Conversation with a Little Flower	p. 101
The Sea and Man	p. 102
To That Which is Most Important	p. 103
Poetry Reading	p. 104
I Must Fight An Angel	p. 105
I Do Not Accept	p. 106
Goddess of Matriarchy	p. 107
That Would Not Be Good	p. 108
Priceless Gifts	p. 109
Like an Egyptian	p. 110
Four Very Fat Legs	p. 111
Falling Asleep	p. 112
The Soul and the Body on the Beach	p. 113
A Handy Sun	p. 114
There is a Light in Me	p. 115
I Am Running on the Beach	p. 116
I Do Not Know How to Bark	p. 117
I Am Raking Hay	p. 118
When I Am Digging Potatoes	p. 119
A Woman Writer Does Laundry	p. 120
I Talk to My Body	p. 121
By the Well	p. 122
A Dirty Sexy Poem	p. 123
Sad Lovers	p. 124
It is Not Easy	p. 125
A Double Rapture	p. 126
Poems About My Friend	p. 127
Love with Rucksacks	p. 129
Our Two Silences	p. 130
Beach Sandals	p. 131
Like a He-Bear and a She-Bear	p. 132
Tell Me	p. 133
Anxiety	p. 134
Thank You, My Fate	p. 135
I Look with My Eyes Flooded by Tears	p. 136
Take My Pain	p. 137
My Friend Speaks When Dying	p. 138
Afterword: A Dialogue (1985)	p. 141
Postscript	p. 157
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