Michigan State University Press, 2004 Paper: 978-0-87013-685-6 Library of Congress Classification PS3601.P64C76 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In her new collection of poetry, Crossing the Ladder of Sun, Laura Apol explores the ordinary moments of life—watching her daughter, picking blueberries, sharing confidences with friends, arriving and leaving, and driving, always driving—and transforms them into the extraordinary. This book is rich with the lyrical found in what is considered the mundane as it portrays the multiple roles of a woman’s life—mother, daughter, lover, ex-wife, friend. Apol’s highly personal poems reflect a caring and compassion that transcends loneliness and heartache.
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2004 Oklahoma Book Award-Poetry
— 2004 Oklahoma Book Award-Poetry
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
About Wings
Cellular Memory
Safe: A Combination
Edge of October (Two Voices)
Travelling Light
Night Driving
Ocean
Hanna Teaches Me About Wings
From a Traveller who does not Speak French
River of Then and Now
The Whole World Between Us
In New York City, 1979
Next Time
Hanna Teaches Me About Distance
Pilgrimage into your Past
Oklahoma Drought
The Switch
Magnolias
A Map to the Wilderness
Not Only on the Island
Mid-Flight
Nothing Begins with Us
Hanna Teaches Me About Writing
Two a.m.
Stretch Marks
Woman of Light
Father Reading
Meteors, Late Summer
Ending a Marriage: Six Lessons
The Wedding Ring
Learning to Breathe
Mending
A Letter to his Sister
An Anniversary Poem for my Ex-Husband
Lightning
Why I Cannot Tell the Story
The Grass is on Fire
Miscarriage
Waiting for Grief
Synchronicity
A Talk about Trees
Scars
Anorexia
Learning to Dance
Canon
Chicago
Hanna Teaches Me About Daddy Long Legs
Twin Sister, Stillborn
Crossing the Ladder of Sun
One Night
Umbilical
Remembering Eden
Blueberries
Late Winter
Pedernal
Learning What is Enough
The Way We Fit Ourselves To It
see me beautiful
Happiest Day
Hanna Teaches Me About Monkey Bars
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Women Poetry, Mothers and daughters Poetry
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Michigan State University Press, 2004 Paper: 978-0-87013-685-6
In her new collection of poetry, Crossing the Ladder of Sun, Laura Apol explores the ordinary moments of life—watching her daughter, picking blueberries, sharing confidences with friends, arriving and leaving, and driving, always driving—and transforms them into the extraordinary. This book is rich with the lyrical found in what is considered the mundane as it portrays the multiple roles of a woman’s life—mother, daughter, lover, ex-wife, friend. Apol’s highly personal poems reflect a caring and compassion that transcends loneliness and heartache.
REVIEWS
2004 Oklahoma Book Award-Poetry
— 2004 Oklahoma Book Award-Poetry
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
About Wings
Cellular Memory
Safe: A Combination
Edge of October (Two Voices)
Travelling Light
Night Driving
Ocean
Hanna Teaches Me About Wings
From a Traveller who does not Speak French
River of Then and Now
The Whole World Between Us
In New York City, 1979
Next Time
Hanna Teaches Me About Distance
Pilgrimage into your Past
Oklahoma Drought
The Switch
Magnolias
A Map to the Wilderness
Not Only on the Island
Mid-Flight
Nothing Begins with Us
Hanna Teaches Me About Writing
Two a.m.
Stretch Marks
Woman of Light
Father Reading
Meteors, Late Summer
Ending a Marriage: Six Lessons
The Wedding Ring
Learning to Breathe
Mending
A Letter to his Sister
An Anniversary Poem for my Ex-Husband
Lightning
Why I Cannot Tell the Story
The Grass is on Fire
Miscarriage
Waiting for Grief
Synchronicity
A Talk about Trees
Scars
Anorexia
Learning to Dance
Canon
Chicago
Hanna Teaches Me About Daddy Long Legs
Twin Sister, Stillborn
Crossing the Ladder of Sun
One Night
Umbilical
Remembering Eden
Blueberries
Late Winter
Pedernal
Learning What is Enough
The Way We Fit Ourselves To It
see me beautiful
Happiest Day
Hanna Teaches Me About Monkey Bars
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Women Poetry, Mothers and daughters Poetry
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