In this Book
- The Book of Ten
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
“Susan Wood brings us this new collection of her poems and a steadfast intent to write with courage of history and contemporary American life. She is able—adept, even—to make things mundane seem complex and worthy of her pen while in due contrast illuminating things that could be considered justly grand as very human, tactile, and near. Like Jorie Graham or Geoffery Hill, she is swift and unapologetic about plunking her reader down in the middle of some landscape—as if the dear reader had been on holiday there with her all along—and provides details of her views of this place, making it familiar at once even if it screams unknown, remote, or exotic.”—Coal Hill Review
Table of Contents
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- The Lord God Returns
- pp. 1-2
- Decalogue: Thin Ice
- pp. 3-5
- The Soul Bone
- p. 6
- Decalogue: What If
- pp. 7-9
- Decalogue: Rooms
- pp. 12-13
- I Got a Mind to Ramble
- pp. 14-16
- Decalogue: Husbands and Wives
- pp. 17-20
- In America
- pp. 23-24
- Daily Life
- p. 32
- If Grief Were a Bird
- pp. 33-34
- My Father Looks Down on Me
- pp. 35-37
- Benediction
- pp. 38-39
- Decalogue: Fathers and Daughters
- pp. 40-41
- Palace Theater
- pp. 42-43
- Decalogue: Mothers and Daughters
- pp. 47-50
- The Old Testament
- pp. 51-52
- Decalogue: Mothers and Sons
- pp. 53-56
- The Magic Hour
- pp. 57-58
- Decalogue: Ethics
- pp. 59-62
- Without Number
- pp. 66-67
- Decalogue: Chance
- pp. 68-69
- My Mother Comes Back to Me
- pp. 70-72
- Decalogue: Siblings
- pp. 73-75
- Gratification
- pp. 76-77
- Elegy for My Pug Cosmo
- pp. 78-79
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 81-82
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822991229
Related ISBN(s)
9780822961390
MARC Record
OCLC
835768359
Pages
95
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No