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Title

The turning / Hilda Morley.

Author

Morley, Hilda.

Publication

Wakefield, R.I. : Asphodel Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

193 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The poems in this fifth collection by Hilda Morley are poems of transformation. They map the poet's turning toward a healing from grief and brokenness. They explore the rich textures of friendship, and render with clarity and delicacy both outer and inner landscapes.

Note

• Poems.

Contents

• Foreword: For Hilda -- The Poet and Painting -- To Know the Fullness -- A Lesson in Floating -- Looking at that Sky -- A Presence, Wild -- A Single Thread -- Something Else -- Between the Rocks -- In that Rock-pool -- The Snare -- Alphabet -- The Wild Geese -- Simone, Simone Weil -- This Ugly Concrete Building -- A Lackawanna Coal-Mine -- April 1943 -- The World Then -- Which of the Heaps -- Out of the World's Frame -- The Turning -- For Pasolini -- With Cavafy -- Claire Moore, Her Drawing -- For John Cage's Etudes Australes -- Pierre Matisse 1903-1989 -- Il Postino -- For Robert Duncan 1919-1988 -- The Brisons -- As a Knife -- For Giacometti -- Portrait of a Girl (Vermeer) -- The Absence -- For Carrington -- Parents -- That Ballerina Waist -- La Grande Sarah -- Alexandra Danilova at 70 -- Notes from Easthampton: March -- By Choice -- Japanese Lady -- Desert -- Season -- Quebradillas: February 18, 1982 -- As in the Beginning of Time -- The Apple of It --
• As a Wave Rises -- Who Was It Opened My Eyes to See? -- The Barter -- How Could We Have Stayed Up -- Postscript -- Anemone -- For Elaine de Kooning -- For Creeley -- For B.N. -- For Franz Kline -- For Piet Mondrian -- For Marina Tsvetaeva -- I Can't Write for You, Moon -- For Stefan 26 Months Later -- What There: in Wales -- In the Illness -- What I Heard -- How You Loved Your Birthday -- Even Now, Over 6 Years Later -- The Mourning Stones -- Learn to Breathe Deeply -- Your Color -- The Cold Warm Glitter Above Me -- I Remembered of You the Kindness -- Augury -- Hittites -- This Ledge -- The Life Behind the Life Goes On -- Lean Hard -- What Made You Stand There -- Visit to Stefan's Grave, August 25, 1992 -- Journey to Muzot -- To Draw the Blinds Down -- Hagstrom's Map of the World -- Swung off the Parkway -- The Sound of this Sea -- Asters -- Cornwall -- Autobiography -- Justice, Justice -- Egret of the Gulf War -- Truro, January 1964 -- Fiesta, Ibiza --
• The Cardinal -- The Trying Out -- The Hull, Pollensa -- Mt. Ste-Victoire -- Ibiza, Summer 1961 -- John Keats -- For Melody R. -- Where the Light Is Equal -- This Could Be Where I Live -- Ibiza I, III -- Ballachulish -- Rome, 1970 -- After the Moon-Walk -- This Almost Last Day -- Was That Serbia -- The Rim -- Early October, 1995 -- Tongue in Your Head.

ISBN

1559212020

LCCN

96044931

OCLC

• 35627750
• ocm35627750

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries