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Firekeeper : selected poems

Title
Firekeeper : selected poems / Pattiann Rogers.
Author
Rogers, Pattiann, 1940-
Publication
Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions : Publishers Group West, 2005.

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Description
246 pages; 22 cm
Summary
"Pattiann Rogers has written about motherhood, art, science, spirituality, and the tension between humanity and wildness. Firekeeper presents the best work from Rogers's thirty-year career in one compact book, including such favorite poems as "Suppose Your Father Was a Redbird," "The Hummingbird: A Seduction," "Animals and People: 'The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself,'" and "Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew." This new edition reflects the poet's own selection from her work and has been expanded to include poems from her five books published since Firekeeper was first released in 1994."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents
from The expectations of light (1981) -- Hiring the man who builds fires for a living -- In order to perceive -- Suppose your father was a redbird -- The rites of passage -- The question of affection -- Seduced by ear alone -- Achieving perspective -- The man hidden behind the drapes -- Concepts and their bodies (the boy in the field alone) -- The determinations of the scene -- Being of this state -- Supposition -- A giant has swallowed the earth -- The significance of location -- Making a history -- On the existence of the soul -- All the elements of the scene -- That song -- The fear of falling -- Capturing the scene -- from The tattooed lady in the garden (1986) -- The pieces of heaven -- Second witness -- Her delight -- Raising the eyes that high -- Love song -- The hummingbird : a seduction -- The power of toads -- The possible salvation of continuous motion -- The delight of being lost -- The definition of time -- The possible suffering of a God during creation -- The verification of vulnerability : bog turtle -- Justification of the horned lizard -- Eulogy for a hermit crab -- Trinity -- The creation of the inaudible -- Parlor game on a snowy winter night -- Finding the tattooed lady in the garden -- Discovering your subject -- Being accomplished -- Inside God's eye -- from Legendary performance (1987) -- Naked boys on naked ponies -- A seasonal tradition -- The mirror of Pierrot -- Locating the source of intention -- Gentlemen of leisure -- The pursuit as solution -- How the whale forgets the love of Felicia -- The myth : Raison d'Etre -- The creation of sin -- Sight and sound -- from Splitting and binding (1989) -- The next story -- The dead never fight against anything -- The voice of the precambrian sea -- The origin of order -- The answering of prayers -- The importance of the whale in the field of iris -- For the wren trapped in a cathedral -- There is a way to walk on water -- Knot -- The family is all there is -- Rolling naked in the morning dew -- When at night -- For passions denied : pineywoods lily -- The objects of immortality -- Before I wake -- from Geocentric (1993) -- A common sight -- In addition to faith, hope, and charity -- Geocentric -- Life and death : all the lost accordions and concertinas -- Good heavens -- Elinor Frost's marble-topped kneading table -- Snow thinking -- Distance and depth -- By death -- To complete a thought -- Under the big top -- The year all the clowns were executed -- Get on board -- The process -- The greatest grandeur -- from Old spiral of conception (1994) -- Till my teeth rattle -- In my time -- If dying means becoming pure spirit -- The laying on of hands -- Eating death -- Foreplay -- Are some sins hosannas? -- Fetal bat : the creation of the void -- Infanticide -- Goddamn theology -- Life in an expanding universe -- Creating transfiguration -- For any known fact : nude walking alone on a beach in moonlight -- The image in a world of flux -- The all-encompassing -- from Eating bread and honey (1997) -- The singing place -- Opus from space -- The fallacy of thinking flesh is flesh -- Murder in the good land -- Nearing autobiography -- Of possibility : another autumn leaving -- Creation by the presence of absence : city coyote in rain -- The death of living rocks and the consequences thereof -- The consequences of death -- Against the ethereal -- Animals and people : "the human heart in conflict with itself" -- The art of raising gibbons and flowers -- Kissing a kit fox -- Place and proximity -- Abundance and satisfaction -- "God is in the details," says mathematician Freeman J. Dyson -- Rapture of the deep : the pattern of Poseidon's love song -- The long marriage : a translation -- Egg -- from A covenant of seasons (1998) -- God's only begotten daughter -- Consider the lily -- Because you understand this -- Summer solstice -- Language and experience -- Five divinities of rain during sleep all night -- Janus -- from The dream of the marsh wren (1999) -- The dream of the marsh wren : reciprocal creation -- Nude standing alone in the forest : a study of place -- A self-analysis of dust -- The gift of reception -- For the future evolution of the god of the abyss -- from Song of the world becoming (2001) -- A very common field -- Being specific -- The nature of the huckster -- On the way to early morning mass -- Believing in blood -- Speaking of evolution : luminosity -- Born of a rib -- Veneration -- Afterward -- The blessings of ashes and dust -- Stone bird -- Millennium map of the universe (from the National Geographic Society) -- The stars beneath my feet -- Self-recognition of the observer as momentary cessation of process -- Once upon a time, when I was almost dead with fear and doubt -- Almanac -- Watching the ancestral prayers of venerable others -- Before the beginning : maybe God and a silk flower concubine perhaps -- The background beyond the background -- from Generations (2004) -- Generations -- A traversing -- Alpha and Omega -- The passing of the wise men -- Servant, birthright -- The body and the soul -- In general -- A statement of certainty.
ISBN
1571314210 :
LCCN
2005008406
OCLC
  • 62073230
  • ocm62073230
  • SCSB-5212651
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries