Research Catalog

Title

Bending home : selected & new poems, 1967-1998 / Susan Griffin.

Author

Griffin, Susan.

Publication

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xi, 249 pages; 23 cm

Contents

The woman -- Consummation -- Bread -- Revolution -- She was twenty-three -- Her sadness runs beside her like a horse -- Love should grow up like a wild iris in the fields -- Grenadine -- Cinema realité -- Fall -- from Letter -- Perversity -- Archaeology of a lost woman: fragments -- Mother and child -- I sit -- Daughter -- Song -- Chile -- Torture -- Green -- Summer night -- Deer skull -- Knowledge of the body -- Three shades of light on the windowsill -- Three love poems -- A story -- Dream -- Move -- Door -- Under -- "My daughter is hungry" -- "My child deep" -- The perfect mother -- The bad mother -- Two, hers and mine -- Our mother -- Prayer for continuation -- Beech -- Atmosphere -- Fields -- I wake thinking of myself as a man -- Born into a world knowing -- What you wore that day -- Absence -- Nature -- "Quiet, quiet heart" -- "I wake to your gestures" -- Confession -- Amnesia -- Happiness -- Lake -- Homoerotic poem -- The sway -- Small -- A gangster movie -- God -- Gone -- Stirring -- Night -- The group -- The spell -- Gone -- Curve -- She tries to reason it out -- Thicket -- Public opinion -- To the far corners of fractured worlds -- Faith -- Retrieve -- Hunger.

ISBN

• 1556590873 (pbk.)
• 1556590865

LCCN

98019743

OCLC

ocm39078790

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries