In this Book
- Necessary Light
- Book
- 1999
- Published by: Utah State University Press
- Series: Swenson Poetry Award
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Winner of the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award, Patricia Fargnoli has also received the Robert Frost Literary Award, a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony, has been in residences many times at the Dorset Writers Colony, and has received several other awards for her poetry. Her work has been published in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Ploughshares, Prairie
Schooner, and many other literary journals.
Table of Contents
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- Part One
- How This Poet Thinks
- pp. 3-4
- Sea Watchers
- pp. 12-13
- The Sleepers
- pp. 18-19
- The Decision
- p. 20
- Sag Harbor Sundown
- p. 22
- Crossing the Sound
- p. 23
- Lamentation
- p. 27
- Part Two
- In the Winter of My Sixtieth Year
- pp. 33-34
- In the City Without a Name
- pp. 37-38
- Weed in Drought
- pp. 39-40
- In the Basement of the First Church
- pp. 42-43
- Visiting Frost's Grave
- pp. 45-46
- Boundaries
- pp. 47-48
- Starry Night
- p. 50
- Invocation
- pp. 52-53
- Near Galway
- p. 56
- Dublin Beggar
- p. 57
- Pilot Glasses
- pp. 58-59
- Anniversaries
- pp. 62-63
- Still Water
- p. 64
- Acknowledgments
- p. 66
- About the Author
- p. 67
Additional Information
ISBN
9780874213317
Related ISBN(s)
9780874212846
MARC Record
OCLC
42855281
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Copyright
1999
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