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- Lacemakers
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Southern Illinois University Press
- Series: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
summary
In Lacemakers, Claire McQuerry investigates the timeless questions of relationships, of loss and longing, and of environment both natural and manmade. This informal yet haunting collection juxtaposes a myriad of perspectives—public and personal, interior and exterior, sacred and secular—to explore the fathomless mysteries that abound between one human and another. From the metallic hum of the air conditioner to the thrumming of quail wings in the Arizona desert, from the necklace of brake lights on the freeway to the more dangerous and intimate highways of the human heart, McQuerry explores the impact of our environments, both urban and natural, on humankind. Spirituality clashes with modernity in the holiest of places, and we are relentlessly confronted with the irreconcilable otherness of our fellow man. Above all, Lacemakers returns obsessively to separations, offering searing insight into our inability to truly know another person, meditating on the subtle abysses that eternally divide us from others.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Part I
- Cassiopeia
- pp. 5-8
- From Sleep
- p. 10
- The Bus from Strasbourg
- pp. 11-12
- To You, Next Door
- pp. 13-14
- Before Freeways
- p. 15
- What Remains
- p. 17
- Traffic in Phoenix
- p. 18
- The Fast Local
- p. 19
- Miles Away
- pp. 20-21
- Blue Violinist
- pp. 22-23
- Marriage Blessing
- p. 26
- Letter from Phoenix
- pp. 28-29
- Book of Hours
- pp. 31-32
- Part II
- St. Stephen’s Hand
- p. 39
- The Train to Ventimiglia
- pp. 40-41
- The Incorruptibles
- pp. 42-47
- The Other Sky
- pp. 48-49
- One summer we paint your house
- pp. 50-51
- Waltz of the Flowers
- p. 52
- Other Women’s Men
- pp. 54-55
- Windshield Repair Next Right
- pp. 56-65
- Saying Grace
- pp. 69-70
- Perennial Garden
- pp. 73-74
- St. Margaret’s Well
- p. 77
Additional Information
ISBN
9780809330621
Related ISBN(s)
9780809330614
MARC Record
OCLC
792942973
Pages
77
Launched on MUSE
2012-06-26
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2012