Research Catalog

Title

Amulet songs : poems selected and new / Lucile Adler.

Author

Adler, Lucile.

Publication

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2003.

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Details

Description

ix, 253 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Mary Burritt Christiansen poetry series

Uniform Title

Mary Burritt Christiansen poetry series.

Contents

Introduction / V. B. Price -- The Traveling Out -- Country School -- Certainties -- Long Ago -- Portrait with Lemon Leaves -- Desert Almanach -- The Lonely Neighbor -- Celebration -- A Treaty of Liberation -- In Memory of Certain Sapphire Flowers -- A Wedding Near Pilar -- In the Parish of Christo Rey -- After Van Gogh -- Whisper for a Daughter -- As in Tibet -- Anita with White Lilacs -- For Fanny Lou Hamer -- Good Night -- We Are All Walking the Same Road -- An Obscure Way and a Clearing -- At the Cave Mouth -- "The Heart Determines" -- Geranium Flame -- The Twelve Dancing Princesses -- Impatience Is a Flower -- Weather Before Women -- Dark by Dark Is Taken -- After the Garden -- When the People Are Avenues -- Flight # -- On the Night of the Day the World Ends -- Consolation -- The Village Anna -- The Society of Anna -- Note -- Cerro Gordo Dreams -- As One Gull Holds the Sky -- The Undistinguished -- Crudites -- Homestead -- The Ripening Light -- Sari -- Response to a Night Wind -- On a Phrase by Camus -- Painting with Child -- A Dream of Peaches -- From the Loom of Juniper Woman -- There Will Be One to Focus On -- Before the Light Is Steady -- At Pilar for K. -- "Exposed on the Cliffs of the Heart" -- Juniper After Rain -- Wild Geese -- Parade -- Weaver, Weave Sun -- With Horror, Sir, Sincerely -- Lovers' Warning -- The Day the Decision Was Taken -- Squirrel -- The Fox and the Flood -- When You Sleep You Grow -- Shiprock -- The Level Eye -- Juniper for Our Sakes -- The Sybil at Market Time -- The Great Are Called -- Akhmatova -- No Lineage But Light -- Your Face with Tiger Lilies -- The Breaking Apart -- To The Approaches -- Only -- To Become a Dancer -- Amulet Songs -- You -- The Last Day -- Papyrus -- "Arduous Times" -- L'Ecole des Reves Joyeux -- On the Day After (in memory of E. M. S.) -- The Red Pear Tree -- Here Lies -- Two Views from the Sangre de Cristos -- Only God Knows -- Essence -- Advice from a Spinster -- Nettles -- Outcome -- Mateo I -- Mateo II -- Mateo III -- "Je Reponderai" -- The pink Madonna -- History Lesson -- After the Siege of Leningrad -- Profile -- Remembering Srebrenica -- Crossing into Zaire -- Child, I beg you to remember bells -- Black in the Snow as a Dancing Slipper -- Be Valiant -- Barley's Map -- Juniper Reaches Out -- The Mesa We Climbed -- Smike -- Rilke's Angels -- Remembering N. in the Field -- Pretend You Give Me Your Hand -- Goodbye.

ISBN

0826331378 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003006263

OCLC

ocm51905759

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries