In this Book
- A Necklace of Bees: Poems
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
summary
With a quirky poignance, Dannye Romine Powell’s third collection probes the nature of loss—loss that's actual and loss that's feared. In these poems, loss takes many guises. With its ferny breath, loss is sometimes the lover who waits in secret on the porch. Sometimes even loss recognizes the feeling of loss and "calls the cops / to say his best friend / went fishing and won't answer his phone." Often, the poet mourns a loss of innocence, as when she learns, after attending the funeral of a friend, that the dead woman's husband has a history of infidelity. There's also the loss of romantic love, as when the woman "pulls / toward shore, a shore she calls by a name / she swore she'd never breathe again."
Table of Contents
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- The Child and I
- pp. 4-5
- Daddy Tosses Them Down
- pp. 8-9
- The Avalanche
- p. 11
- My Mother’s Lips
- p. 14
- After the Stroke
- p. 16
- This Morning
- p. 24
- Dying from the Feet Up
- pp. 26-27
- Loss Calls the Cops
- p. 28
- When He Told Her
- p. 29
- Your Beautiful Hands
- pp. 31-32
- The Train Whistle
- pp. 34-35
- Arranging a Life
- p. 36
- To Lose Something
- p. 42
- I Knew a Boy
- p. 50
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610750028
Related ISBN(s)
9781557288790
MARC Record
OCLC
787842841
Pages
70
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No