University of Illinois Press, 2004 eISBN: 978-0-252-09276-3 | Cloth: 978-0-252-02922-6 | Paper: 978-0-252-07177-5 Library of Congress Classification PS3573.A425336D44 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In A Deed To the Light Jeanne Murray Walker asks probing questions about the depth of grief, about letting go, and about the possibility of faith. Her poems have been described by John Taylor, writing in Poetry, as "splendid, subtly erudite, uplifting, and funny."
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jeanne Murray Walker is a professor of English at the University of Delaware. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including American Scholar, Atlantic Monthly, Boulevard, the Chicago Tribune, Image, The Nation, Partisan Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Southern Review. Among her awards are The Prairie Schooner-Strousse Prize, six Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Awards, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. An Atlantic Monthly Fellow at Bread Loaf School of English, Walker was awarded a Pew Fellowship in The Arts in l998. Her previous books of poetry include Coming Into History, and Gaining Time.
REVIEWS
"Hers is a poetry of lyricism, intelligence, clarity, and wit."--Daniel Hoffman, Chancellor Emeritus of The Academy of American Poets
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Part 1
This Is to Say Good-bye: For Michiyo Ishii
Letter to a Friend Who Has Asked to Come
Enough
Discovery
The Nurses
Hunter
Lion
Stripping an Artichoke
Dinner Party
Part 2
Sacrifice
Chaplain
Genius
Van Gogh
Uncle Lloyd: His Eight Types of Courage
Sniper
How Mother Courage Saves Desdemona
Portrait of the Virgin Who Said No to Gabriel
Part 3
Birthday
Miss Leona Gifford's Hair
Making the Move
To My Son, Off to College
Letting Go
7
The Dogs of the Heart
Rain
Night-light
Part 4
Light
Outlaw
The Janitor
Song of the Girl Who Stepped Out of Language
Mary Ellen Is Pregnant!
Holding Back the Sun
Sewing
Part 5
After Terrorism
Melting Pot
Wee Hours
Control
Writing the Novel
The Dutiful
Beyond Reading
Cleaning Out
Dung Beetle
Trying to Read The Encyclopedia of Things No One Knows
Part 6
Boundaries
Myth
Grasshopper
The Scarf
8
After the Tornado
Insomnia
Luci's Knee
Geese, Tree, Apple, Leaves
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University of Illinois Press, 2004 eISBN: 978-0-252-09276-3 Cloth: 978-0-252-02922-6 Paper: 978-0-252-07177-5
In A Deed To the Light Jeanne Murray Walker asks probing questions about the depth of grief, about letting go, and about the possibility of faith. Her poems have been described by John Taylor, writing in Poetry, as "splendid, subtly erudite, uplifting, and funny."
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jeanne Murray Walker is a professor of English at the University of Delaware. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including American Scholar, Atlantic Monthly, Boulevard, the Chicago Tribune, Image, The Nation, Partisan Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Southern Review. Among her awards are The Prairie Schooner-Strousse Prize, six Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Awards, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. An Atlantic Monthly Fellow at Bread Loaf School of English, Walker was awarded a Pew Fellowship in The Arts in l998. Her previous books of poetry include Coming Into History, and Gaining Time.
REVIEWS
"Hers is a poetry of lyricism, intelligence, clarity, and wit."--Daniel Hoffman, Chancellor Emeritus of The Academy of American Poets
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Part 1
This Is to Say Good-bye: For Michiyo Ishii
Letter to a Friend Who Has Asked to Come
Enough
Discovery
The Nurses
Hunter
Lion
Stripping an Artichoke
Dinner Party
Part 2
Sacrifice
Chaplain
Genius
Van Gogh
Uncle Lloyd: His Eight Types of Courage
Sniper
How Mother Courage Saves Desdemona
Portrait of the Virgin Who Said No to Gabriel
Part 3
Birthday
Miss Leona Gifford's Hair
Making the Move
To My Son, Off to College
Letting Go
7
The Dogs of the Heart
Rain
Night-light
Part 4
Light
Outlaw
The Janitor
Song of the Girl Who Stepped Out of Language
Mary Ellen Is Pregnant!
Holding Back the Sun
Sewing
Part 5
After Terrorism
Melting Pot
Wee Hours
Control
Writing the Novel
The Dutiful
Beyond Reading
Cleaning Out
Dung Beetle
Trying to Read The Encyclopedia of Things No One Knows
Part 6
Boundaries
Myth
Grasshopper
The Scarf
8
After the Tornado
Insomnia
Luci's Knee
Geese, Tree, Apple, Leaves
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ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC