| Description |
xi, 185 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
New Poems 2001. Going Back to the Convent -- Shackleton -- On Western Avenue behind a Horse-and-Buggy -- Through a Silver Screen -- Clematis montana -- Visiting Sunday: Convent Novitiate -- Almanac -- Elegy for Arnold -- The Paradise Tree -- Surgery Waiting -- Still Life -- Balancing Acts -- Memory Tract -- Metempsychosis -- Woman Locked in a Memorial Museum -- To Marilyn Monroe Whose Favorite Color Was White -- Scarecrow Gardens -- Peregrine Falcons in the Bank Tower -- Widows Riding Amtrak -- Sapphires in the Mud -- Hanging the Blue Nuns -- Double Dutch -- Vermeer's A Woman Holding a Balance -- from From the Darkroom 1964 -- from From the darkroom. 1964. Requiem Mass: Convent Cemetery -- A Kind of Resurrection -- Nuns in the Quarterlies -- The Outsider -- Antique Convent Parlor -- Skid Row -- Long Day's Journey into Bloomington -- Matinal -- Whitsunday Office -- From the Darkroom -- from When Sky Lets Go 1978 -- from When sky lets go 1978. Baroque Lament -- The Shell -- In the Hellgate Wind -- The Family Group -- The Odd Woman -- Letter to an Absent Son -- A Woman Possessed -- Psalm for a New Nun -- Existing Light -- Driving Home -- Nights of flint and snow -- With a Bottle of Blue Nun to All My Friends -- Hope Diamonds -- from Magpie on the Gallows 1982. Slow-Motion Elegy for Kathy King -- Portofino -- Extended Outlook -- Hanging the Pictures -- The day you were leaving -- The Register -- Phobias Incorporated -- Aladdin Lamp -- Sanding the Chairs -- Beetle Light -- Picking Youngberries on Mr. Harvey's Land -- Keeping Up with the Signs -- Gold Ring Triad -- from The light on Tillamook Rock 1990. I. The geologist's map -- II. Power failure -- IV. Sounding the ocean -- V. The return from New England -- VI. Breaching the rock -- IX. The Columbarium: everlasting consideration -- XII. Geography as warning -- XVI. Counting the winter dead -- XVII. The book of sediments -- from Imaginary ancestors 1991. Stages of family life -- Honesty -- Grandmother Grant -- On my father's side -- Clare of Assisi -- Gilbert of Sempringham -- The woman with fabled hair -- Ulysses S. Grant )1822-1885) -- Galileo's case reopened (1564-1642) -- Sister Maria Celeste, Galileo's daughter, writes to a friend -- Modern primitives -- The giraffe women of Burma -- Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Greta Garbo and the Star messenger -- Maria Callas, the woman behind the legend -- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans Cross) -- from Possible Sibyls 1991. The stirrups -- Crossarms -- In the middle of Priest Lake -- Blueprints -- Living by the water -- Beside Mill River -- Dialogue partly platonic -- In the locker room -- Spiritual exercises -- What I mistook for Healther -- Shadegrown tobacco -- In the whirlpool -- the The widows of Mykonos -- Hagios Panaghiotes: The church in Tolon -- The garden of botanical delights. |
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Women -- Poetry.
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Women (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Women.
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Gender identity.
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Gender.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry (DNLM)D055821
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poetry. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300055931
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Poetry (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Copper Canyon Press.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: DeFrees, Madeline. Blue dusk. Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, ©2001 (OCoLC)606741380 |
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Online version: DeFrees, Madeline. Blue dusk. Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, ©2001 (OCoLC)632052478 |
| ISBN |
1556591667 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781556591662 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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