Research Catalog

Title

The flashboat : poems collected and reclaimed / Jane Cooper.

Author

Cooper, Jane, 1924-2007.

Publication

New York : Norton, [2000], ©2000.

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Details

Description

263 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• "In The Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed, Jane Cooper has brought together the contents of four earlier books with a number of poems not previously published in book form. In a voice of unusual integrity, she traces the arc of a life, from the haunting personal lyrics of her first published volume to poems that, with no loss of intimacy, engage history and the world with increasing subtlety and passion."--BOOK JACKET.
• "The "flashboat" - a word dreamed by the poet - suggests both a flashlight and a lifeboat: what saves us, what lights our way."--BOOK JACKET.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• Morning on the St. John's -- Leaving Water Hyacinths -- The Faithful -- Blind Girl -- For My Mother in Her First Illness, from a Window Overlooking Notre Dame -- Snow in the City -- Rock Climbing -- The Builder of Houses -- For a Very Old Man, on the Death of His Wife -- Bermuda -- For Thomas Hardy -- Practicing for Death -- Acceptances -- The Sundial -- The Graveyard -- The Racetrack -- In the Last Few Moments Came the Old German Cleaning Woman -- A Little Vesper -- Roman Dream -- These High White Walls -- In the House of the Dying -- My Young Mother -- The Figure on the Far Side -- Iron -- All the Leaves Were Green -- Letters -- The Weather of Six Mornings -- March -- Feathers -- Hunger Moon -- El Sueno de la Razon -- Back -- No More Elegies -- In Silence Where We Breathe -- Middle Age -- Coda -- Eve -- For a Boy Born in Wartime -- P.O.W. -- The Door -- a poem with capital letters -- Song -- The Urge To Tell the Truth -- Twins --
• The Knowledge That Comes Through Experience -- Long View from the Suburbs -- After the Bomb Tests -- In a Room with Picassos -- Gaza -- Meteors -- A Bedside Rune -- Obligations -- Messages -- Poetry As Continuity -- After the Blackout (1965) -- Dream in Which the Routine Quality of My Imagination Is Fully Exposed -- Cemetery in Pernambuco: Our Lady of Light -- 95[degrees] -- Holding Out -- Dispossessions -- Things -- Souvenirs -- Inheritances -- A Circle, a Square, a Triangle and a Ripple of Water -- Suicide Note -- A Nightmare of the Suburbs -- The Earthquake -- Pencil Sketch of Self & Other -- Waiting -- The Flashboat -- All These Dreams -- Scattered Words for Emily Dickinson -- S. Eliason 66: Double Portrait of Emily Dickinson and the Rev. Charles Wadsworth -- Evening Star (Georgia O'Keeffe) -- Olympic Rain Forest -- Starting with a Line from Roethke -- The River in All Lights, from an Upstairs Window -- Jittoku, Buddhist Mystic - 15th Century --
• A Mission with the Night -- Rent -- Conversation by the Body's Light -- Praise -- The Blue Anchor -- Threads: Rosa Luxemburg from Prison -- Wronke, Spring 1917 -- Breslau, November-December 1917 -- Breslau, Spring 1918 -- The Green Notebook -- Ordinary Detail -- My friend -- My Mother in Three Acts -- What the Seer Said -- Estrangement -- Long, Disconsolate Lines -- Mourning Picture -- For the Recorder of Suicides -- Nothing I Meant To Keep -- Bloodroot -- The Calling -- Hotel de Dream -- Mary Coldwell -- From the Journal Concerning My Father -- Childhood in Jacksonville, Florida -- The Hobby Lobby -- Class -- Wanda's Blues -- The Past -- Being Southern -- Seventeen Questions About King Kong -- Clementene -- How Can I Speak for Her? -- The Infusion Room -- The Children's Ward -- The Winter Road -- Vocation: A Life: Suite Based on Four Words from Willa Cather -- Desire -- Romance -- Possession -- Unfurnishing.

ISBN

0393047776

LCCN

99031822

OCLC

ocm41368361

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries