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Title

Iovis. Book II : all is full of Jove / Anne Waldman.

Author

Waldman, Anne, 1945-

Publication

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Details

Description

311 pages; 26 cm

Summary

• In this second tome, Iovis Book II, Anne Waldman pursues the duty she charged herself with at the close of her previous volume - "to blunt the knife." Male war making and aggression, old stubborn patriarchal social forms, and the damages of industrial and military expansionism raise the poet into a rage of spiritual compassion. All require that she conjure powerful mythic assistance.
• She summons female eidolons for her work, reaching out to Sappho, H.D., the woman troubador known as the Countess of Dia, the Gaelic Hag of Beare, and the Spider Woman of Native America. There are dirges for dead relatives and companions, and songs of healing as she watches over dear friends taken ill. All of Waldman's themes come into focus - friendship, motherhood, politics, and Buddhist wisdom. And the planet's charged landscapes appear - beyond North America looms tantric India, indigenous Mexico, old Europe - dreamscapes and visions as the poet takes on in succession the roles of daughter, lover, mother, hag.
• This is epic poetry that goes beyond the old injunction "to include history" - its effort is to change history.

Alternative Title

Iovis, all is full of Jove

Contents

Guardian & Scribe: Prologomena to Exile -- I. So Help Me Sappho -- II. To Blunt the Knife -- III. Hag of Beare (Caillech Berri) -- IV. Lip of the Real -- V. Within a Budding -- VI. Evangelle -- VII. Rooms -- VIII. Shree Jagannatha -- IX. Ancestor, Ancestor -- X. Furor Bellicus -- XI. Nerves: Terrorist for Language -- XII. Glyphs -- XIII. Objects of Desire -- XIV. One Taste -- XV. Devil's Working Overtime -- XVI. Lacrimare, Lacrimatus -- XVII. There Was a Time an Eclipse -- XVIII. Sequel to a Sharp Turn -- XIX. Ambrose: Nam -- XX. Tu m' -- XXI. EZLN -- XXII. Cosmology: Within The Mind of The Sleeping God -- XXIII. Spin or Lace It in Story -- XXIV. Upadesha: Cycle of Desire -- XXV. Sprechstimme (Countess Of Dia).

ISBN

1566890535 (pbk.) :

OCLC

ocm36685724

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries