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- A Wild Surmise
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Red Hen Press
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A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings is Eloise Klein Healy's seventh book of poetry and the first that includes an audio component. Included are poems from all her previous collections, including her award-winning first collection, Building Some Changes, as well as Artemis In Echo Park and The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho.
Table of Contents
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- Section I. from Building Some Changes, 1976
- Furnishing
- pp. 27-30
- Storing Things
- p. 31
- Minor Leagues
- p. 32
- Los Angeles
- p. 33
- The Pope at 7:00 P.M.
- pp. 34-35
- Please Forgive Me
- p. 36
- Snow Pack Café
- p. 38
- Section II. from A Packet Beating Like A Heart, 1981
- After the Last Call Home
- pp. 43-45
- I Live in the City of Los Angeles
- pp. 46-47
- A Mile Out of Town
- pp. 49-51
- This Darknight Speed
- pp. 52-53
- A Packet Beating Like a Heart
- pp. 54-55
- Wisdom or the Hungry Thing
- pp. 56-58
- Driven to Meet You in Rainy Weather
- pp. 60-61
- Entries: L.A. Log
- pp. 62-63
- I Spent the Day with You
- pp. 64-65
- The Words “Begin Again”
- pp. 66-67
- Section III. from Ordinary Wisdom, 1981
- Dividing the Fields
- p. 71
- Exhalation
- p. 72
- To Speak for Human Feelings
- pp. 75-76
- Section IV. from Artemis in Echo Park, 1991
- Artemis in Echo Park
- p. 79
- I Live Where I Live
- p. 82
- The City Beneath the City
- pp. 84-85
- The Peahens
- p. 86
- Up to Topanga
- p. 89
- Changing the Oil
- p. 94
- Moon on the Porch
- p. 95
- Wild Mothers
- p. 99
- This Art, Your Life
- pp. 100-102
- Section V. from Women's Studies Chronicles, 1998
- Intro to Women’s Studies
- pp. 105-106
- Asking for an Incomplete
- p. 110
- To Peter in Germany
- pp. 111-114
- Section VI. from Passing, 2002
- Living Here Now
- p. 117
- Los Angeles Is a Virgo
- pp. 118-120
- Latin from the Mass
- pp. 121-123
- The Beach at Sunset
- pp. 124-125
- Asking About You
- p. 129
- Suite for Young Man Dying
- pp. 136-140
- Where I Come From
- p. 141
- Changing What We Mean
- pp. 142-143
- From Los Angeles Looking South
- pp. 144-145
- Section VII. from The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho, 2007
- The Grackle on the Lawn
- p. 151
- Wind in Mytilene
- p. 152
- The Living Fragments
- p. 153
- The Singing School
- pp. 154-155
- My Mothers
- pp. 158-159
- The Day After Meeting Her
- pp. 160-161
- If There Were No Books
- p. 163
- Love Poem from Afar
- pp. 164-165
- So the Teacher Jumped Up on the Desk
- pp. 166-167
- Working Towards Sappho
- pp. 168-171
- Not Disappearing
- pp. 172-173
- When Did a Self Begin?
- pp. 174-184
- Section VIII. New Poems: A Wild Surmise
- A Wild Surmise
- pp. 187-188
- Big Dog Photo
- pp. 190-191
- Calling Upon the Saints Including Titanium
- pp. 192-193
- Persephone and Demeter
- p. 195
- Mr. Twister
- p. 196
- Memorize This
- p. 197
- The Summer She Died
- p. 198
- Oh, Dr. Surgeon
- p. 199
- Looking Up at the Ceiling
- pp. 200-201
- The Arborist
- p. 202
- It Didn’t Seem Dangerous
- pp. 204-205
- The Warring States Period
- pp. 209-211
- Selling My Mother’s House
- pp. 212-213
- The Last Breakup
- pp. 214-216
- Since You Asked
- p. 217
- Shrine and Ashes
- pp. 218-219
- Wáng Wéi Did Not Paint a Fire
- pp. 220-221
- What Marries You
- pp. 224-225
- Escucha, Mi Vida
- pp. 226-227
- This Next Attempt Will Be Meta-poetical
- pp. 228-230
- American Jisei
- pp. 232-233
- Index of Poems
- pp. 239-242
- About the Author
- p. 248
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597092814
Related ISBN(s)
9781597097598
MARC Record
OCLC
867740020
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-21
Language
English
Open Access
No
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