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Mrs. Dumpty
- Title
- Mrs. Dumpty / Chana Bloch.
- Author
- Bloch, Chana, 1940-2017.
- Publication
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [1998], ©1998.
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Text | Request in advance | PS3552.L548 M77 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 68 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Mrs. Dumpty is a riveting memoir-in-verse about "a great fall," the dissolution of a long and loving marriage. Chana Bloch's poems speak with candor and compassion, and without a trace of self-pity, about the familiar strains in a marriage of many years - aging, dependency, the erosion of feeling - as compounded by the ravages of a spouse's mental illness.
- She writes not only about horrors like electroshock therapy but about the after-shocks of history as well - in this case, the trauma of Hitler's Germany, which continues to take its toll. These poems, remarkable for their precision of language and the power of their imagery, are shot through with humor and wit even at their most tragic.
- Series Statement
- The Felix Pollak prize in poetry
- Uniform Title
- Felix Pollak prize in poetry (Series)
- Alternative Title
- Misses Dumpty
- Contents
- Mrs. Dumpty -- Hosanna -- Please Hold -- Act One -- Annunciation -- Happy Families are All Alike -- Self-Portrait at Eleven Thirty P.M. -- Tired Sex -- Surprise Party -- The Conservation of Energy -- High Summer -- The Comforters -- Relic -- Twenty-Fourth Anniversary -- Marcel's at 11:00 -- Trompe l'Oeil -- Rehearsal -- Coasting -- Esperanto -- How the Last Act Begins -- Don't Tell the Children -- Crescendo -- Crazed -- The Equilibrists -- Compost -- What It Takes -- Archipelago of Dreams -- Puzzle Pieces -- Mother Hunger -- Fooling the Enemy -- Straw Basket -- Here -- In the Ward -- ECT -- Visiting Hours are Over -- The Collector -- Waking at Four -- The Rule of Grammar -- Clear and Cold -- The End of Safety -- Though You Haven't Asked -- Before -- A High Wind -- The Kiss.
- ISBN
- 0299160009 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0299160041 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98026433
- OCLC
- ocm39849287
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries