Never the whole story : poems / / by Anita Skeen

• Autore: Skeen Anita
• Pubblicazione: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (165 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.54
• Soggetto topico: American poetry
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; I Love to Tell the Story; Never the Whole Story; Letter to an Unknown, andProbably Deceased, Photographer; In the Time of Flags; Regarding Skunks; Ghost House; Remembering My Father, Struggling; My Mother Recedes into Childhood; Sunday Morning on theCarefree Highway; My Cousin Writes a Letter; Button Bag; Stalking the Old Neighborhood; Acquisitions; Seductions; Friday Night Singingat Husky Branch; For the Beauty of the Earth; What the Seed Knows; Bird Watching; The Clover Tree; Corn Maze; Zebra Moon; Waiting for Snow; Dances on Glaciers; Cat, Bird, Woman; The Picking Season ; What the Cat Brought HomeReturn of the Bison; Stopping by Road ona Summer Morning; Psalm Twenty-Th ree; Vocabulary Night; Love Lifted Me; Hunger; No Apostrophe Needed; Sleeping with Rilke; How Bodies Fit; Drought; Among the Boats; Woman with Something to Say; On Vicki's Porch; At the Winery; In Praise of Forgetfulness; School Physiology Exam: 1880; Eleven Months Later; Retreat; But Not Forgiving Myself; Let the LowerLights BeBurning; From the Lighthouse; Cause and Effect; Oklahoma Family Portrait, 1928; The Visitor; Losing My Hands; The Building Trades; Double Valentine ; Father and Daughter at the Nursing HomeThe Return; Psalm for Anne; Girls Crossing Over; Trouble in the House; A Matter of Perspective; When the Moon Slipped Loose of the Sky like a Button Undone; Sweet Hour of Prayer; Road Song; Grief; Looking for the Name of God; House of the Rising Sun; In the Garden; Vigil; Three Part Harmony; This Time in Virginia; Her Granddaughter, in Church; Particle or Wave; Elegy for Wings; Of All the Gifts, It Was the Music; Water Aerobics, YWCA, Easter Sunday; About Darkness and Light; Sunday Worship
• Sommario/riassunto: Epiphanic and rich with striking imagery, Anita Skeen's new collection of poetry documents the fragmentary nature of life and celebrates the desire to make a meaningful narrative from momentary experience. In Never the Whole Story, the past is never past, and the present comes filled with the miracle of small gestures-singular moments that have the power to transport the mind from one geographic place to the next, one emotional world to another. Memory is incomplete, events unfold from multiple perspectives, and secrets unspool from the ordinary. Following in the tradition of James Wright,
• Titolo autorizzato: Never the whole story
• ISBN: 1-62895-100-1; 1-60917-130-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817647203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II