Watermark

by POPE, JACQUELYN

• ISBN13: 9780975919729
• ISBN10: 0975919725
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-15
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

Poetry. The debut offering from Jose Marti prizewinning poet Jacquelyn Pope has been honored with the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize 2004. "Pope has remarkable ease and power, especially in using tone and diction to establish an imagined world, eloquent and various" - Marie Ponsot. "A welcome ruckus of rich imaginings and sounds" - Gregory Orr.

Author Biography

Jacquelyn Pope was educated at the University of Minnesota and Boston University. Her poems, essays and translations have appeared in journals and newspapers in the United States and Europe, including Poetry, The New Republic, Gulf Coast, AGNI, and Partisan Review. Her work has received the JosT Marti Prize (The Netherlands) as well as awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Table of Contents

I.
Raddled	3	(1)
Alice, After	4	(1)
Street of Endless Prayer	5	(1)
Woman in Translation	6	(1)
Hoogstraat	7	(1)
Dream on a Train	8	(2)
O	10	(1)
Rain Diary	11	(1)
Antiquarian	12	(2)
The Good Wife	14	(1)
Elemental	15	(1)
Dwelling	16	(1)
Household Economy	17	(1)
The Baker's Wife	18	(1)
Cloud Reading	19	(1)
A Lost Address	20	(1)
Brief Season	21	(1)
Red Scarf	22	(3)
II.
Watermark	25	(1)
Persephone Descending	26	(1)
Gramarye	27	(1)
Number 17, the Shipbuilder's	28	(1)
In the Bonehouse	29	(1)
Ghostlily	30	(1)
In the Interval	31	(1)
Iris	32	(1)
Vagabond	33	(1)
Evening's Line	34	(1)
Parting from Shame	35	(1)
In a Dry Season	36	(1)
Anemone	37	(1)
Lament of the Out-of-lander	38	(1)
By Light	39	(1)
Holiday	40	(1)
Mrs. Robinson	41	(1)
Tulips	42	(1)
Furiouser and Furiouser	43	(4)
III.
Convergence	47	(1)
In the Other Tongue	48	(1)
From the Album	49	(1)
Goodbye to All That	50	(1)
Sea-Leveled	51	(1)
Sunday's Hours	52	(1)
Letter in Two Drafts	53	(1)
First Lesson in Silence	54	(1)
All Said and Done	55	(1)
SRO	56	(1)
Forgetting How	57	(1)
Abroad	58	(1)
From a Crooked Wall	59	(1)
Benediction	60	(1)
There and Back	61	(1)
World's End	62	(1)
Notes	63	(2)
About the Author	65