In this Book
- Trace of One
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
- Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
summary
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
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- 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
ISBN
9781587294105
Related ISBN(s)
9780877458067
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
56109534
Pages
66
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2002