Love's answer : poems / / by Michael Heffernan

• Autore: Heffernan Michael <1942->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1994
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (98 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.54; 811.54
• Soggetto topico: American poetry - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1; The Abyss; The Facts on the Ground; A Temptation in the Wilderness; The Atonement; The Blessings of Liberty; The Light of the Living; Another Part of the Forest; The Monks at Large; The Queen of Heaven; This Life; Souls in Purgatory; Afternoon of the Hun; On the Beach at Saugatuck; The Last Man; The Council; A Passerby and His Companions Visit the Widow after the Mad Avenger's Dreadful Accident; A Creak of Hinges; Free Country; The Banquet; The Music of Forgiveness; Rendering Aquinas; A Rhetoric upon the Window; 2; Summer in Umbria; Remembering Skye; The Ape of Emain Macha ; A Highway Brook in DingleThe Moving Statue at Melleray; Poulnabrone Dolmen; Lake Isle; A Catch in the Breath; A Girl Sings to Moravia at the World's End; Magpies; The Land of Heart's Desire; The World of Light; The Magnum Opus; The Boulevardier; Why We Forget the Things We Thought We Wouldn't; Dream Vacation; B-Minor Mass; Merciless Beauty; The Peasants' Rising; A State of Grace; The Island; 3; The Rooming House; A Sign from Heaven; The Consolation; A Light in the House; A Phantom of Delight; The Nightgown; The Flesh; Stickbug; Great Beast; White Dwarf; Lawn Mower; Angelology ; Watering ImpatiensTruth; Requiem; Lost Boy; Café Paradiso; Badia Fiesolana; The Disenthralled
• Sommario/riassunto: The blues of the sky provide the mood, and more than a handful of birds--magpies, curlews, hummingbirds, jackdaws--are sent into the open spaces that Heffernan, a tranquil, philosophical poet who sees the universe with the help of ""the inmost eye in the middle of me,"" stirs up in this, his fourth collection, winner of the 1993 Iowa Poetry Award. Showing a spare, musical touch combined with a masterful sense of color, the most captivating poems explore the nature of things, the unchartered places where objects intersect or connect, especially where the human gives way to the divine, as in ""A
• Titolo autorizzato: Love's answer
• ISBN: 1-58729-106-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812269703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Iowa poetry prize.