Lives of the sleepers /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Notre Dame, Ind. :
University of Notre Dame Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | Ernest Sandeen prize in poetry ;
2005. |
| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Desire : a bestiary [magnificent frigate-bird]
- Peacock
- A stranger's arms
- After Hitchcock. Descent and aftermath ; Madeleine's afterlife ; Melanie's ascent as metaphor
- Desire : a bestiary [honey bee]
- Lives of the saints
- Blessing
- Antique ring
- Psyche
- Fever/pomegranate
- Second circle
- Desire : a bestiary [damselfly]
- Millennial
- In Avignon
- A tragedy
- Fire victim
- Avalokitesvara
- Entries in the dream book
- Two in discord. Orpheus and his muse ; Eurydice in darkness
- Widow
- Cast away, recovered. Eroded Cupid ; Scorpion conch
- Desire : a bestiary [deep-sea angler fish]
- The kiss in shadow
- Crucible
- House of wax
- Queenright
- Terzanelle with lines from Bhartrihari
- Strange creature
- Dante's Beatrice
- Three enchantments. Scapular ; Novena ; To Marie Laveau, on opening her pamphlet
- A way to light
- Invocation
- Dante alone
- Aristaeus forgiven
- Lives of the sleepers
- In Assisi
- Folly bridge
- Ophelia: a wreath
- Cycles of catastrophe in Petrarch
- Desire : a bestiary [banana slug]
- Denouement
- Recantation
- Two departures
- Desire : a bestiary [slipper limpet]
- Expectation of a journey
- Field
- First thaw
- House of song
- Desire : a bestiary [bonobo]
- A star.