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1st ed. |
| Description |
177 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
A woman invented fire -- Stanzas: Old Age and the Conventions of Retirement Have Driven My Friends from the Work They Love -- One day when I was a child -- Drowning (I) -- Drowning (II) -- Life -- Right Now -- A Poem about Storytelling -- A Warning -- Alive -- At the Battery -- An Arboreal Mystery -- 20th Street -- Spring -- note to grandparents -- psalm -- Mulberry Street -- War -- For Danny -- The Nature of This City -- On the Fourth Floor -- Winter Afternoon -- Middle-Age Poem -- Bob Visits Friends -- On Mother's Day -- Housing -- Having Arrived by Bike at Battery Park -- Whistlers -- For George (I) -- For George (II) -- Certain Days -- One Day -- The Five-Day Week -- Some Days -- Vengeance -- Family -- Letter -- My Mother: 33 Years Later -- On the Bank Street Pier -- Gift -- No Love -- Words -- Quarrel -- Question -- Old Age Porch -- Fund Appeal -- For My Friend Who Planted a Tree for His Daughter Jane -- Responsibility -- Fear -- Families -- Goldenrod -- What is this whiteness -- When the wild strawberry leaves turn -- Then -- In Deepest Summer -- Saint-John's-wort! -- A bee! -- An ant! -- False strawberry is -- September -- The Choir Singing -- Leaves -- Apples -- Connections: Vermont -- Vietnam (I) -- Connections: Vermont -- Vietnam (II) -- Song Stanzas of Private Luck -- Some Nearly Songs. The Old Dog's Song. 34th Street Song. The Sad Children's Song -- Traveler -- Speaker and Speaker -- Quarrel -- Autumn -- South Window -- My Father at 85 -- My Father at 89 -- One Day I Decided -- In Aix -- On the Ramblas -- A Tree -- A Girl -- Oh -- In France -- I Gave Away That Kid -- Subway Station -- Bridges -- In Hanoi -- 1969 -- Two Villages -- That Country -- Street Corner Dialogue -- Illegal Aliens -- In San Salvador (I) -- In San Salvador (II) -- For Mike and Jeannie: Resisters -- Fifteen Years Later -- Learning from Barbara Deming -- Happiness -- Definition -- Age -- Love -- Time -- The Women's Prison: El Salvador -- The Ballad of Visiting Day -- The Dance in Jinotega -- People in My Family -- In the Bus -- House: Some Instructions -- The Immigrant Story -- Translation -- Signs -- The Woman Says -- Faces -- It's True -- Tenth Grade -- The Boy -- His Mother -- Suppertime -- How to Tell a Story (My Method) -- (Most of the Time) -- The Word Thrum -- My Father Said -- He Wanders -- Four Short Pieces -- The Poet's Occasional Alternative -- One of the Softer Sorrows of Age -- When this old body -- When I Was Asked How I Could Leave Vermont in the Middle of October -- Weather -- In Montpelier, Vermont -- Beef -- NOW -- Is There a Difference Between Men and Women -- Reading the Newspapers at the Village Store -- The Desert Wasn't Loved Enough -- said Reich -- What If (This Week) -- This Life -- Sometimes -- Leaflet -- I See My Friend Everywhere -- A Letter -- For Jan -- Luck -- On the Deck -- For My Daughter -- Therefore -- In This Dream -- Hand-Me-Downs -- Here -- Walking in the Woods. |
| Summary |
Combining Grace Paley's four previous collections and new unpublished work, this work traces the career of this direct, attentive, never predictable poet. Whether she describes the vicissitudes and pleasures of life in New York City or the hard beauty of her adoptive rural Vermont, whether she celebrates the blessings of friendship or protests against social injustice, her poems brim with the compassion and tough good humor that have made her stories and essays famous. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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American poetry.
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| ISBN |
0374126429 (alk. paper) |
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9780374126421 (alk. paper) |
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