The Turning

by Morley, Hilda; Creeley, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781559212915
• ISBN10: 1559212918
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-30
• Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd

Summary

This is a collection of transformation poems. They map the poet's turning toward a healing from grief and brokenness. They explore the rich textures of friendship and render, with clarity and delicacy, both outer and inner landscapes. Morley's poetry has a deep affinity with painting--particularity Klee and Picasso. In the poet's words: "From the Abstract Expressionists I discovered a way of seeing the modern world in its totality, finding meaning in what was defaced, injured, dishevelled, torn, eroded and disfigured, without rejection. To transform or transmute these elements but still to embody them was my task as poet." This poetry is primarily for an adult, feminist reader. Ms. Morley is very accessible and this collection will appeal to men as well as women.

Table of Contents

Foreword: For Hilda
The Poet and Painting
To Know the Fullness	p. 3
A Lesson in Floating	p. 5
Looking at that Sky	p. 7
A Presence, Wild	p. 8
A Single Thread	p. 10
Something Else	p. 11
Between the Rocks	p. 12
In that Rock-pool	p. 15
The Snare	p. 16
Alphabet	p. 19
The Wild Geese	p. 20
Simone, Simone Weil	p. 21
This Ugly Concrete Building	p. 23
A Lackawanna Coal-Mine	p. 24
April 1943	p. 28
The World Then	p. 31
Which of the Heaps	p. 32
Out of the World's Frame	p. 33
The Turning	p. 35
For Pasolini	p. 39
With Cavafy	p. 43
Claire Moore, Her Drawing	p. 45
For John Cage's Etudes Australes	p. 46
Pierre Matisse 1903-1989	p. 47
Il Postino	p. 49
For Robert Duncan 1919-1988	p. 52
The Brisons	p. 54
As a Knife	p. 56
For Giacometti	p. 57
Portrait of a Girl (Vermeer)	p. 59
The Absence	p. 61
For Carrington	p. 62
Parents	p. 71
That Ballerina Waist	p. 72
La Grande Sarah	p. 74
Alexandra Danilova at 70	p. 75
Notes from Easthampton: March	p. 77
By Choice	p. 79
Japanese Lady	p. 80
Desert	p. 82
Season	p. 83
Quebradillas: February 18, 1982	p. 84
As in the Beginning of Time	p. 85
The Apple of It	p. 86
As a Wave Rises	p. 87
Who Was It Opened My Eyes to See?	p. 88
The Barter	p. 90
How Could We Have Stayed Up	p. 93
Postscript	p. 94
Anemone	p. 95
For Elaine de Kooning	p. 96
For Creeley	p. 98
For B.N.	p. 100
For Franz Kline	p. 101
For Piet Mondrian	p. 103
For Marina Tsvetaeva	p. 107
I Can't Write for You, Moon	p. 114
For Stefan 26 Months Later	p. 116
What There: in Wales	p. 117
In the Illness	p. 119
What I Heard	p. 120
How You Loved Your Birthday	p. 121
Even Now, Over 6 Years Later	p. 122
The Mourning Stones	p. 123
Learn to Breathe Deeply	p. 125
Your Color	p. 126
The Cold Warm Glitter Above Me	p. 127
I Remembered of You the Kindness	p. 129
Augury	p. 131
Hittites	p. 132
This Ledge	p. 135
The Life Behind the Life Goes On	p. 136
Lean Hard	p. 137
What Made You Stand There	p. 139
Visit to Stefan's Grave, August 25, 1992	p. 141
Journey to Muzot	p. 145
To Draw the Blinds Down	p. 150
Hagstrom's Map of the World	p. 152
Swung off the Parkway	p. 153
The Sound of this Sea	p. 154
Asters	p. 156
Cornwall	p. 158
Autobiography	p. 160
Justice, Justice	p. 161
Egret of the Gulf War	p. 163
Truro, January 1964	p. 164
Fiesta, Ibiza	p. 165
The Cardinal	p. 166
The Trying Out	p. 168
The Hull, Pollensa	p. 169
Mt. Ste-Victoire	p. 170
Ibiza, Summer 1961	p. 171
John Keats	p. 172
For Melody R.	p. 173
Where the Light Is Equal	p. 174
This Could Be Where I Live	p. 175
Ibiza I, III	p. 176
Ballachulish	p. 179
Rome, 1970	p. 180
After the Moon-Walk	p. 181
This Almost Last Day	p. 182
Was That Serbia	p. 184
The Rim	p. 188
Early October, 1995	p. 191
Tongue in Your Head	p. 193
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