My last door : poems / Wendy Bishop.

Author
Bishop, Wendy, 1953-2003 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Tallahassee, Fla. : Anhinga Press, 2007.
Description
xxi, 235 pages ; 23 cm

Details

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
166372318
RCP
C - S
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