In this Book
- Trace of One
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
- Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
In Trace of One,real geographies merge with spiritual ones, just as details of the speaker’s physical and emotional worlds intertwine with the transcendent realms of science, religion, and myth. Joanna Goodman’s poems share a sense of spatial and temporal displacement—they are love poems to a place, whether it be a field, a room, or a paradise—they celebrate their subjects, but they are also poems of grief and solitude. The poems resonate with ethereal echoes paradoxically emitted by an increasingly demystified world in which mechanical explanations for the workings of the human mind and body bump up against the mystery and obliqueness of the soul.
Table of Contents
Download Full Book
- acknowledgments
- p. xi
- I
- Falser Certainty
- p. 6
- The Succession of Parts
- pp. 8-9
- Beech Tree in March
- pp. 11-12
- Conversion
- p. 18
- This is Joy
- pp. 19-20
- Directions
- p. 21
- Pian Dell’Arca
- p. 22
- Coming of Age
- pp. 23-24
- II
- Trace of One
- p. 28
- Where to End
- p. 32
- Port De Grave
- pp. 33-34
- The Aftermath
- p. 38
- Resuscitation
- p. 39
- Recitative
- p. 40
- The Dry Spell
- p. 41
- Examples of Use
- p. 43
- Coming Up Violets
- pp. 45-46
- Laws of Motion
- p. 49
Additional Information
Copyright
2002
Project MUSE Mission
Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves.
