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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: River house
    sub title: poems
  title info:
    title: Poems. Selections
  name:
    name part: Keith, Sally
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Poetry.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 63 pages ; 21 cm
  abstract: "These are poems of absence, poems that see the world in the negative. Written in the wake of the loss of her mother, River House follows Keith as she makes her way through the depths of grief, navigating a world newly and forever transfigured and searching for purpose: "We sang that day to what our mother had been. we sang as if the sound we made had meaning." Incorporating her travels abroad, her experience studying the neutral mask technique developed by Jacques Lecoq, and her return to the river house she and her mother often visited, the poet assembles a guide to survival in the face of seemingly insurmountable pain. Even in the dark, Keith finds the ways we can be "filled with this unexpected feeling of living." Keith seeks solace in the words of others, a scholarship that deeply informs this book. Interspersed with quotes from sources as diverse as Adam Phillips and Louise Gluck, the poems here attempt to create a new system of knowledge developed to understand not just how we feel, but also how to feel. These sonnets lead us through pain and memory to a new sense of peace where the dead are here, just out of reach: "You won't believe it, but she is okay. / She has everything she needs to live." Addressing death, art, travel, and beauty, River House finds, in mourning, what it means to survive"--
  note: Sally Keith.
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    topic: Women authors
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: POETRY / American / General
  classification: PS3561.E3773 A6 2015
  classification: 811/.54
  classification: POE005010
  identifier: 9781571314659
  identifier: 1571314652
  identifier: 2014033918
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140826
    record change date: 20151105214251.0
    record identifier: in00003530695
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng