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Title

Deaths & transfigurations : poems / Paul Mariani ; engravings by Barry Moser.

Author

Mariani, Paul L.

Publication

Brewster, Mass. : Paraclete Press, c2005.

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Details

Description

94 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"This collection of new poems - Mariani's first in nine years - searches and develops the human themes of personal loss - the deaths we experience - and the quest for new life, and the transfiguring moments that are possible in the mysteries of living."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Deaths and transfigurations

Contents

Wasn't it us you were seeking? -- Solar ice -- New York, Christmas Eve 1947 -- Study in black & white -- East of the whitestone -- The sweater -- Work -- The place across the river -- The things they taught me -- Failed Ghazal against the siren call of Morpheus & in niggling praise of old bitch fame, rejected (gently) by the late Agha Shahid Ali -- Unsolicited -- Absence of crocus -- Light -- Casualty report -- Fear -- Silt -- Pieta -- Passage -- Exile -- Mother of consolation -- Wolf moon -- Ferry crossing -- Fathers & sons -- Death of the father -- How it all worked out -- Shadow of the father -- P.S. -- Making capital -- Death & transfiguration -- Nine one one -- I did say yes -- Wedding song -- Birdsong -- Epithalamion for an old friend & a new -- High tea with Miss Julianna -- There was a boy once -- The cup -- Hopkins in Ireland -- When we walked together.

ISBN

1557254524

LCCN

2005006040

OCLC

ocm58431592

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries