In this Book
- The Two Standards
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University Press of Colorado
- Series: Con[text]ual
summary
Heather Winterer explores the intimate territory between desolation and consolation, offering a poetry that translates the distances between spiritual endings and beginnings, between an "after what it used to be" and "an arrival." The work enacts the model of St. Ignatius Loyola, encouraging the collapse of lines between creation and creativity, time and space, the Christian and Christ, the self and the other. The voice of these poems moves exuberantly through various forms, resisting predication and celebrating its own multiplicity. With lyrical dexterity and humor, Winterer invites us into her world, a world of tangible absences and presences--where the Mojave Desert and the city of Las Vegas become the unlikely sites of spiritual encounter. The god of this quirky world appears in cars, apartment buildings, and swimming pools and speaks to us through desert plants and birds. Everything from the outside--natural and unnatural--spills into the poems and they turn whatever they are given into movement away from darkness and loss, toward possibility, potency and grace.
Table of Contents
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- TRANSLATIONS / AN APPROACH
- INCARNATION
- p. 3
- MULTIPLICATION
- p. 5
- PHILOSOPHY
- p. 11
- COFFEE SHOP
- pp. 12-13
- EZRA POUND
- p. 16
- THE GARDEN
- p. 17
- TRANSLATIONS / VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
- ANNOTATIONS
- pp. 21-25
- FIRST FOUNDATION
- p. 26
- COMMENTARY
- pp. 37-38
- TRANSLATIONS / THE CALL OF THE TEMPORAL KING
- ANTIPHON I
- p. 41
- ANTIPHON II
- p. 42
- HIGHWAY 99
- p. 43
- WHO THEY WERE
- p. 44
- WHAT THEY WERE DOING
- p. 46
- COLLOQUY / ANNUNCIATION
- pp. 47-48
- SIMEON AND ANNA
- p. 50
- WALKING ON WATER
- p. 54
- THE TWO STANDARDS
- pp. 57-58
- TRANSLATIONS / CRACKDOWN
- OUTSIDE GETHSEMANE
- p. 63
- PALM SUNDAY
- p. 64
- PARQUE LOS VOLCANOES
- p. 65
- TRANSLATIONS / APPARITION
- BLACK CEDING THE DAY
- p. 73
- SPOON GRASS
- p. 74
- JOSHUA TREE
- p. 78
- BARREL CACTUS
- p. 79
- PRAYERS OF GRATITUDE
- pp. 83-88
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- p. 91
- Production Notes
- p. 92
Additional Information
ISBN
9781885635259
Related ISBN(s)
9781885635211
MARC Record
OCLC
820353138
Pages
72
Launched on MUSE
2012-11-16
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2012