In this Book
- Winter Morning with Crow
- Book
- 1997
- Published by: The University of Akron Press
- Series: Akron Series in Poetry
summary
In Winter Morning with Crow, it is Clare Rossini's consciousness (attentive, prescient, inspired) that makes her miraculous art, makes a poetry so pure and spare, so free of artifice or contrivance, that it seems to reinvent the page. This is poetry that restores to us something we have lost. It returns beauty, and faith in beauty, then reminds us (as the great painters remind us) that we are not meant to possess it-or the objects of our love. The wisdom of these poems is as ancient as Buson's crows painted against a stark landscape, the whiteness of winter morning. Clare Rossini is, with this extraordinary first book, already a master.
Table of Contents
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- I. First Snow
- Vision and Prayer
- pp. 8-9
- How to Tempt a Fish
- pp. 10-11
- From Abstinence, N.H.
- pp. 12-13
- Final Love Note
- p. 14
- To Mount Monadnock in Fog
- pp. 15-16
- First Snow
- pp. 17-18
- The Wood-Burning Stove
- pp. 20-21
- Valediction
- p. 22
- To the Curious Reader
- pp. 23-24
- Mortal Thoughts
- pp. 25-26
- II. Claudia Poems
- Curriculum Vitae
- pp. 30-31
- Calla Lily Studies
- p. 33
- Red Light, Roma
- p. 38
- The Imperial Forum
- p. 41
- The Sistine Chapel
- p. 42
- Meditation, Mid-December
- pp. 45-46
- Still Life with Pear
- pp. 47-48
- Out of Love
- p. 49
- Among Cows
- p. 51
- III. Leave of Absence
- Preface to a Gesture
- pp. 55-56
- Elegy in Four Parts
- pp. 57-60
- To the Peony
- p. 61
- For a Friend Since Youth
- pp. 64-65
- Winter Morning with Crow
- pp. 73-74
- Leave of Absence
- p. 76
Additional Information
ISBN
9781937378059
Related ISBN(s)
9781884836312
MARC Record
OCLC
605451724
Pages
77
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No