This Great Unknowing: Last PoemsFew poets have possessed so great a gift or so great a body of work--when she died at 74, she had been a published poet for more than half a century. The poems themselves shine with the artistry of a writer at the height of her powers. |
Contents
From Below | 3 |
For the Asking | 4 |
Celebration | 5 |
Patience | 6 |
Ancient Stairway | 7 |
First Love | 8 |
Beyond the Field | 10 |
The Metier of Blossoming | 11 |
Visitation Overflow | 38 |
The mountains daily speech is silence | 42 |
Scraps of moon | 43 |
Mass of the Moon Eclipse | 44 |
Once Only | 46 |
MidDecember | 47 |
Translucence | 48 |
Drawn in Air | 49 |
A Hundred a Day | 13 |
That Day | 14 |
Elephant Ears | 15 |
Animal Spirits | 16 |
The Poodle Palace | 18 |
Swift Month | 19 |
A New Flower | 20 |
A Cryptic Sign | 21 |
Feet | 22 |
Fugitives | 32 |
Dark Looks | 34 |
Memory demands so much | 35 |
Roast Potatoes | 36 |
Noblesse Oblige | 50 |
Masquerade | 51 |
Enduring Love | 52 |
Immersion | 53 |
A Clearing | 54 |
Southern Cross | 56 |
Descending Sequence | 57 |
Alienation in Silicon Valley | 58 |
Moments of Joy | 60 |
Thinking about Paul Celan | 61 |
Aware | 62 |
A Note on the Text | 63 |
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ALIENATION IN SILICON ANCIENT STAIRWAY ANIMAL SPIRITS blessed bright canvas awning century cloud CRYPTIC SIGN Denise Levertov DESCENDING SEQUENCE door DRAWN IN AIR ELEPHANT EARS end of enticing ENDURING LOVE face feet flower folded unseen past gaze green human HUNDRED A DAY imaged laughed layer beyond layer leaf leaving legs light live loose-leaf book Memory demands mermaid MÉTIER OF BLOSSOMING mind's MOMENTS OF JOY MOON ECLIPSE mother mountain's daily speech move never night NOBLESSE OBLIGE once paradise past the mountain patience PAUL CELAN petals poet Poodle Palace rain ROAST POTATOES Saint Celan Scraps of moon shadow shelter shoes SILICON VALLEY silver increment slender evidence Sloppy Joes Sorrow Dance soul SOUTHERN CROSS speech is silence swallow folded unseen SWIFT MONTH tapir THINKING ABOUT PAUL thought thoughtlessly thrown today the mountain Translucence trees UNKNOWING vanish Vietnam voice walk watch William Carlos Williams