Research Catalog

Title

Half wild : poems / Mary Rose O'reilley.

Author

O'Reilley, Mary Rose.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Details

Description

62 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In O'Reilley's poems, human, animal, and mineral creations interpenetrate and share surreal conversation - even stones exchange stories of "hot times in the magma" and animals are listened to intently. Here sacred inquiry in grounded in a passion for the natural world, resolving questions through lyric, erotic, and sensual response. The poems of Half Wild revel in desire and longing as instruments of theological critique."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

Twin -- Scene of the crime photos -- The girl they caught -- The dead -- Bluebeard's wife -- Sister Joanna washes the floor -- Drifting -- Flamenco dancer -- The lost child -- L'Enfant sauvage -- Miscarried -- Ritual -- My daughter interrupts the fairy tale -- Persephone -- As one leaving -- Separating the eggs -- The distaff -- Abandoned farmhouse -- The gods keep descending -- Icon -- The circus dog -- Variation on an ancient text -- Memory -- Grotte du Grand Roc -- Clearing land for the lotus pool -- The Zen master's instructions -- Sweeping the Zendo -- Home farm -- Before spring -- Snowblind -- We keep asking the prairie -- Durham -- When I imagine my soul -- Bees in autumn -- Hasidic bride -- Portrait of Madame Monet on her deathbed -- Passover -- Boreal owl -- Tundra swan -- Field guide to north shore geology -- North coast -- It began -- The crossing -- Open all night -- Driving west -- Green herons -- Scholar's garden -- Infinite day -- Seascape -- Speaking in tongues -- The deer's prayer -- Two biker chicks -- It's not safe at all -- Call it a match -- Autobiography -- The visit -- The lives of the cousins -- The foster child -- Shin Ohashe Bridge.

ISBN

0807131628 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005026794
• 9780807131626

OCLC

• ocm61687716
• SCSB-5232612

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries