In this Book

Necessary Light

Book
Patricia Fargnoli
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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Cover

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

pp. ix-x

Part One

How This Poet Thinks

pp. 3-4

Hopper's Paintings

pp. 5

Landscape in Blue and Bronze

pp. 6

From Eleven Years Later

pp. 7

Breaking Silence—For My Son

pp. 8

Naming My Daughter

pp. 9

Going

pp. 10

Miniature

pp. 11

Sea Watchers

pp. 12-13

From a Rented Cottage by Winnisquam in Rain

pp. 13-14

At the Mystic Aquarium

pp. 15

Gifts

pp. 16

Evensong

pp. 17

The Sleepers

pp. 18-19

The Decision

pp. 20

Nightwork

pp. 21

Sag Harbor Sundown

pp. 22

Crossing the Sound

pp. 23

Pemaquid Beach After a Week Alone

pp. 24

On Hearing of the Sudden Death of a Friend

pp. 25

At the Enosberg Falls Cemetery

pp. 26

Lamentation

pp. 27

Lightning Spreads Out Across the Water

pp. 28-29

Watching Light in the Field

pp. 30

Part Two

In the Winter of My Sixtieth Year

pp. 33-34

When I Wake to a Bedroom Filled with Blue Lights

pp. 35-36

In the City Without a Name

pp. 37-38

Weed in Drought

pp. 39-40

Location

pp. 41

In the Basement of the First Church

pp. 42-43

From the Blue Room at the Colony

pp. 44

Visiting Frost's Grave

pp. 45-46

Boundaries

pp. 47-48

Winter Sky over Cheshire County, New Hampshire

pp. 49

Starry Night

pp. 50

Fall Garden and the Weather Coming In

pp. 51

Invocation

pp. 52-53

The Reading: University College, Galway

pp. 54-55

Near Galway

pp. 56

Dublin Beggar

pp. 57

Pilot Glasses

pp. 58-59

Roofmen

pp. 60

Naming

pp. 61

Anniversaries

pp. 62-63

Still Water

pp. 64

Letter from Cranberry Island

pp. 65

Acknowledgments

pp. 66

About the Author

pp. 67

The May Swenson Poetry Award

pp. 68
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