Trace of One: Poems

by Goodman, Joanna

• ISBN13: 9780877458067
• ISBN10: 0877458065
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr

Summary

InTrace of One,real geographies merge with spiritual ones, just as details of the speakerrs"s physical and emotional worlds intertwine with the transcendent realms of science, religion, and myth. Joanna Goodmanrs"s poems share a sense of spatial and temporal displacement-they are love poems to a place, whether it be a field, a room, or a paradise-they celebrate their subjects, but they are also poems of grief and solitude. The poems resonate with ethereal echoes paradoxically emitted by an increasingly demystified world in which mechanical explanations for the workings of the human mind and body bump up against the mystery and obliqueness of the soul.

Table of Contents

Tebaide	3	(2)
...Took Form Again	5	(1)
Falser Certainty	6	(1)
de' Fiori	7	(1)
The Succession of Parts	8	(2)
Take Aim	10	(1)
Beech Tree in March	11	(2)
Enchanted	13	(1)
Benares	14	(1)
A Light Arch of Cloud, Ten Fingers Wide	15	(1)
On the Holy Friar Crossing a Suspension Bridge to Paradise	16	(2)
Conversion	18	(1)
This Is Joy	19	(2)
Directions	21	(1)
Pian dell'Arca	22	(1)
Coming of Age	23