Worldling

by Spires, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780393316285
• ISBN10: 0393316289
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

In her fourth collection of poems, 1996 Whiting Award winner Elizabeth Spires addresses the elemental subjects of life and of literature birth, death, creation, and intimations of immortality. Spires's poems are distinguished by an immaculate lyricism, a pristine sense for the natural world, and the rhythms of language.

Table of Contents

Truro	p. 3
Worldling	p. 4
Letter in July	p. 6
The Summer of Celia	p. 7
Theatre of Pain	p. 8
The Robed Heart	p. 10
The First Day	p. 11
Celia Dreaming	p. 12
Childhood	p. 13
The Awakening	p. 15
The Night and the Doll	p. 17
The Unfeminine Flower	p. 18
Fisher Beach	p. 19
On the Island	p. 22
Clock	p. 27
Good Friday. Driving Westward	p. 31
Easter Sunday 1955	p. 33
The Rock	p. 35
Mansion Beach	p. 37
"Something Happens"	p. 41
Seven Gough Square	p. 43
The Haiku Master	p. 44
Two Watchers	p. 48
The Nap	p. 50
The Bodies	p. 52
The Great Sea	p. 54
Roman Lachrymatory Bottles	p. 56
Life Everlasting	p. 58
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