University of Wisconsin Press, 1998 Cloth: 978-0-299-16000-5 | Paper: 978-0-299-16004-3 | eISBN: 978-0-299-16003-6 Library of Congress Classification PS3552.L548M77 1998 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The poems in Mrs. Dumpty are about “a great fall,” the dissolution of a long and loving marriage, but they are not simply documentary or elegiac. What interests Chana Bloch is the inner life: how we are formed by our losses and our parents’ losses, how we learn what we need to know through our intuitions and confusions, how we deny and delay and finally discover who we are.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Chana Bloch has published two books of poems, The Secrets of the Tribe and The Past Keeps Changing, as well as translations of the biblical Song of Songs and work by the Israeli poets Dahlia Ravikovitch and Yehuda Amichai. She lives in Berkeley, California, and teaches at Mills College, where she is W. M. Keck Professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Mrs. Dumpty
I
Hosanna
Please Hold
Act One
Annunciation
Happy Families are All Alike
Self-Portrait at Eleven Thirty P.M.
Tired Sex
Surprise Party
The Conservation of Energy
High Summer
The Comforters
Relic
Twenty-Fourth Anniversary
Marcel's at 11:00
Trompe l'Oeil
Rehearsal
Coasting
II
Esperanto
III
How the Last Act Begins
Don't Tell the Children
Crescendo
Crazed
The Equilibrists
Compost
What It Takes
Archipelago of Dreams
Puzzle Pieces
Mother Hunger
Fooling the Enemy
Straw Basket
Here
In the Ward
ECT
Visiting Hours are Over
IV
The Collector
Waking at Four
The Rule of Grammar
Clear and Cold
The End of Safety
Though You Haven't Asked
Before
A High Wind
The Kiss
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University of Wisconsin Press, 1998 Cloth: 978-0-299-16000-5 Paper: 978-0-299-16004-3 eISBN: 978-0-299-16003-6
The poems in Mrs. Dumpty are about “a great fall,” the dissolution of a long and loving marriage, but they are not simply documentary or elegiac. What interests Chana Bloch is the inner life: how we are formed by our losses and our parents’ losses, how we learn what we need to know through our intuitions and confusions, how we deny and delay and finally discover who we are.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Chana Bloch has published two books of poems, The Secrets of the Tribe and The Past Keeps Changing, as well as translations of the biblical Song of Songs and work by the Israeli poets Dahlia Ravikovitch and Yehuda Amichai. She lives in Berkeley, California, and teaches at Mills College, where she is W. M. Keck Professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Mrs. Dumpty
I
Hosanna
Please Hold
Act One
Annunciation
Happy Families are All Alike
Self-Portrait at Eleven Thirty P.M.
Tired Sex
Surprise Party
The Conservation of Energy
High Summer
The Comforters
Relic
Twenty-Fourth Anniversary
Marcel's at 11:00
Trompe l'Oeil
Rehearsal
Coasting
II
Esperanto
III
How the Last Act Begins
Don't Tell the Children
Crescendo
Crazed
The Equilibrists
Compost
What It Takes
Archipelago of Dreams
Puzzle Pieces
Mother Hunger
Fooling the Enemy
Straw Basket
Here
In the Ward
ECT
Visiting Hours are Over
IV
The Collector
Waking at Four
The Rule of Grammar
Clear and Cold
The End of Safety
Though You Haven't Asked
Before
A High Wind
The Kiss
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