Research Catalog

Title

The alchemist's kitchen : poems / Susan Rich.

Author

Rich, Susan (Poet)

Publication

Buffalo, N.Y. : White Pine Press, c2010.

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Details

Description

105 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"An abundance of the world's fruits, herbs and pastries, gestures of hospitality and regard ... [the author] ... who writes in the midst of things, and out of a searing awareness of loss and obliviousness to loss, desire and its absence, what it means to be spiritually awake, to behold human life in all its possibility, pathos and transience"--Page 4 of cover.

Subjects

• Poetry
• Poetry as Topic
• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Incantation -- Different places to pray -- Food for fallen angels -- Tulip Sutra -- Re-imaging my life with lions -- The 4 o'clock news @ House of Sky -- What do you remember from before the war? -- Facing 50 with a line by Robert Hayden -- Tender -- An Army of ellipses traveling all over she does not say ... -- Cereal boxes -- Day of the global heart -- Paradise now at Highline Community College -- For my student, who would prefer to remain anonymous -- Portrait with Lorca -- Interview -- Ode to the question of blue -- The Idea of ice cream at Alki Beach -- Daphne swears off it -- To my lover, not yet -- Transformation -- A Corner of my studio -- Go west, young woman -- Aperture -- Not a still life -- Mr. Myra Albert Wiggins recalls their arrangement -- Homesickness -- Late romance -- Paris Exposition, after hours -- Polishing brass -- What to make of such beauty? -- The Usual mistakes -- The Hospital room in a city where I am not -- Art lessons -- Transcendence -- The Cruise of the Christians -- Disappearing trick -- Song -- At middle life : a romance -- Awaiting further instruction -- Entering the abandoned red barn, old photograph -- Day of the disquieted heart -- The Lost -- The Never born comes of age -- Refrain of the woman who has lived too long alone -- After watching a sky of trumpeter swans and snow geese -- Rental -- You might consider ... -- Curating my death -- Doing time -- Naming it -- Unexpected song -- Chanterelle -- What the grocer knows -- The [In]visible architecture of existence -- Letter to the end of the year -- Notes and dedications.

ISBN

• 9781935210146
• 1935210149

LCCN

^^2009937823

OCLC

• 456179162
• SCSB-11142516

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library