Research Catalog

Title

Aftermath : poems / Sandra M. Gilbert.

Author

Gilbert, Sandra M.

Publication

New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2011.

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Details

Description

160 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Collects poems on loss and the author's grief over the sudden death of her partner, and also includes wry meditations on aging and its delights and discontents.

Subject

• Grief > Poetry
• Loss (Psychology) > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

October sunlight, place des vosges, 4:45 pm -- Old recipes -- Crochet hook -- A sundowner -- For Ilinca -- When my mother dies -- How we didn't tell her -- His sorrow -- The lost one -- Cremation, September 23, 2009 -- Grief: a history -- March 13, 2004: sunset view -- The anniversary -- Anti-sonnet -- December 1, 1957 -- Moving out -- After eighteen years -- Earthquake weather -- Plane -- Nature & culture -- The night mare -- Question and answer -- Portal = portal -- Labor day -- Nothing nicer -- Materia medica -- AfterMath -- Hospitality cart -- I'm shrinking, you said -- Enormous vines -- Map -- Why? -- Oysters Rockefeller -- St. Joseph's, San Jose: March 4, 2009 -- Scouring -- Fibonacci sonnet -- Drash -- Paysage moralise -- Whose transgression left the dead -- November coast -- What's there -- Edge of winter sonnet -- Variations on an old issue of Woman's Day -- Holy Saturday & nothing -- Sun in fog -- Said the scribe -- The same ground -- Seeds -- The Zugspitze/Pike's Peak -- Parasailor -- Seal viewing point: disturbance of sea mammals is a federal offense -- Mother and child -- Flocks -- The Berkeley rat -- The Paris mouse -- He's -- For Ruth Stone on her ninetieth birthday -- Fourteen Fourteeners for Sophia at 14 months -- Anti-valentine -- Canticle of the plums -- Calla lily, shameless -- Hearing aids -- Lei soup -- Knowing.

ISBN

• 9780393081121 (hardcover)
• 0393081125 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2011007715

OCLC

668194809

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library