Research Catalog

Title

My last door : poems / Wendy Bishop.

Author

Bishop, Wendy, 1953-2003.

Publication

Tallahassee, Fla. : Anhinga Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

xxi, 235 pages; 23 cm

Contents

I. The Poem You Asked For -- Everything -- The Poem You Asked For -- Tradition and the Individual Talents -- Ordinary Language Philosophy: A Sestina Plus One line -- Pantoum on Lines by Wallace Stegner -- A Man and a Woman Are Not an Island -- Rainbow Bridge -- Valentines: A Pantoum Using Lines from My Other poems -- How Not to Write -- Blue Lovers -- The Words We've Worked with This Week -- The Sculptor's House -- How Does a Poem Start? -- Roland Barthes on E-mail -- A New Poem about Old Losses -- A Short Course in the Sonnet -- The Southwest: O'Keeffe and Steiglitz -- Inside Out -- Fool for Doubles -- The Rocking Chair, Again -- In Medias Res -- II. The Light at the End of the Year -- North Florida Nocturne -- On Passions -- Without Oceans -- My Vision, One Saturday in March -- Grayton Beach -- Gardenia -- Report -- Prescription for Winter -- How to Be a Shell -- Terzanelle on Drought -- If Over Your Shoulder the Hangnail Moon -- To Get Rain -- Another Celestial Circuit in North Florida -- Back Corners -- The Farm -- To Seed -- Thursday's Weather -- Of Summer -- Approaching Ennui -- On Giving and Finding Gifts -- Call Me Ishmael -- From a Bottle -- My Armadillo -- Coastal -- Wishing Spring: A Ghazal -- The Summer Season -- The Light at the End of the Year -- Gulf Shells -- Where the Hummingbird Sips, There Sip I: An Appreciation -- Centers of Gravity -- III. The New World -- Journey -- The New World -- Hills -- Dawn Song -- The Ice Palace -- Garden -- The Brickmaker's Sinkhole at Goron Dutse, Nigeria -- Blue Moon I: An Elegy -- Lovers and Tribes -- Diary, Photographer, 1850: The Yucatan -- Lindberg Comes to Canyon de Chelly -- Your Apple Tree -- Return to Oaxaca -- Gypsy Dance in Progress in a Sunlit Corner of a Courtyard of Southern Serbia -- Grass: A Museum -- 1225 B.C. -- Awake Early on Todos Santos -- Angels on the Amazon -- The Distance to Rhodes -- Cache Creek -- Chichicastenango -- Findings on the Underground -- On the Chihuahua-Pacifico Railway -- Archeologist's Widow -- IV. To Go Home -- The Peace in Peace: An Epithalemion -- In Summer -- In Your Childhood Bedroom -- The Way I Remember -- Slight Archaic -- How One May Morning Leads to Another -- My Children Help Me Cut My Hair -- First Marriage -- When You Drive Away -- Omnivores -- The Divorce Quilt -- Sestina: on What They Remember -- Why Men Snore -- Men Who Leave -- Men Who Travel Toward Themselves -- Later in Life -- Black Sheep -- Gillian Alone -- Why Sing of a Father Unathletic -- To Start My Father's Heart -- House/Home -- Fever Bouquet -- For My Daughter on Her Glasses -- The Density of White -- In the Wedding Barn -- At Eighteen -- Storm -- On Shelters -- Moors and Christians - A Sestina -- Here in the New World -- IO and Age -- A Teacher Myself, I Consider My Children's Schools -- House Building -- Early Morning Muse -- Self-Portrait: Tait -- Preteen -- To Go Home -- Relatives Relatives -- Autobiography -- V. Our Short Green Lives -- The Cultivation of Mind -- The Red Clearing -- Mid-Passage -- Brain Tectonics -- Inland Seas -- Rage and Gratitude Are Hunger's Angels -- In My Cups -- The Other One -- Part of Things -- A Heart with Eyes an Empty Dress, a Boat Made of Dirt -- My Religious Development: A Paradelle for Jeremy -- A short introduction to phobias -- The Shamans -- Glass Houses -- Ghosts' Story -- Three P.M. -- Frankenstein -- Fortune -- Addressing the Body -- After Epiphany -- Teaching the Trick New Dogs: A Phrenologist Dreams -- Death -- Clothes Closet -- The First Man -- Water's Night -- My Last Door -- Coming Back -- On Orange -- Othering -- The Cancer Patient Writes in the Dark -- This Time -- Skating and Sleighing to the Icy Vaults of Death -- My Impatience -- I Learn to Stand Up Straight -- Dreams of Houses.

ISBN

• 9780938078968
• 0938078968

OCLC

• ocn166372318
• SCSB-5364793

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries