Bending Home: Selected & New Poems 1967-1998 - Softcover

Griffin, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556590873 ISBN 13: 9781556590870

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 1998

Synopsis

Respected feminist writer's collected poetical works balance the personal with the public and political.

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Absence
Amnesia
Archaeology Of A Lost Woman: Fragments
Archive
Atmosphere
The Bad Mother
Beech
The Blackness
Born Into A World Knowing
Bread
Celebration
Chile
Confession
Consummation
Copernicus: A Twentieth-century Journal
Curve
Daughter
Death Holds A Child
Deer Skull
Distress
Dogs
Door
Dream
Faith
Fall
Fantasia
Fields
A Gangster Movie
Gendarmes
God
Gone
Granddaughter
Great As You Are
Green
Grenadine
The Group
Happiness
Her Sadness Runs Beside Her Like A Horse
Holy Body
Home
Homoerotic Poem
Hunger
I Hoped To See
I Sit
I Wake Thinking Of Myself As A Man
I Wake To Your Gestures
I Walk In The
I Went Very Far Away From Life
Knowledge Of The Body
Lake
The Last Of The French Movies
Love Should Grow Up Like A Wild Iris In The Fields
Miracle
Mother And Child
Move
Move
My Child
My Daughter Is Hungry
Native To California
Nature
Night
Now I Write Them Down
Oil
Our Mother
Our Mother Talks About Metaphor
The Perfect Mother
Perversity
Pot Of Tea
Prayer For Continuation
The Preserver
Public Opinion
Quiet, Quiet Heart
Retrieve
Revolution
Sally
Scenes From A Childhood
Seven Nights
She Tries To Reason It Out
She Was Twenty-three
Sleep
Small
Song
The Spell
Spider
Stirring
Stories And Poems
A Story
Summer Night
The Sway
Teeth
They Were Lost In
Thicket - A Play In One Act: Scene Ii
Thicket - A Play In One Act: Scene Iv
This Is A Letter Written
Three Love Poems
Three Shades Of Light On The Windowsill
Tissue
To The Far Corners Of Fractured Worlds
Torture
Touring France
Two, Hers And Mine
Under
We Started
The Whales
What You Wore That Day
Window
Winter
The Woman
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Library Journal:

"There is a record/ here,/ a life," says Griffin in the opening lines of "Prayer for Continuation"?a statement that holds true for her entire collection in all its thematic splendor. This "record" is a celebration not only of feminism and femininity but, more importantly, of human nature. Griffin (Collected Poems, Copper Canyon 1998) combines eloquent rhythms, unique imagery, and internal rhymes to carry the speaker's voice from the page to the reader's ear. The talent displayed in the longer poems (e.g., "Deer Skull," "Knowledge of the Body," "The Love Poem," "Prayer for Continuation," and "To the Far Corners of the Fractured World") places Griffin among the best of her contemporaries. Unfortunately, the short poems seem like fragments to beef up the collection. Still, Griffin possesses a large vision of life?embracing motherhood, science, history, death, faith, doubt, and, above all, beauty?that is as admirable as it is ambitious. After finishing this collection, the reader will agree with Griffin that "Life, I have finally begun to realize,/ is real." Highly recommended for all libraries.?Tim Gavin, Episcopal Acad., Merion, PA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1556590873
• ISBN 13: 9781556590870
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 247