Unremembered Country - Hardcover

Susan Griffin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556590008 ISBN 13: 9781556590009

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 1987

Synopsis

poetry by author of fem classic 'Woman & Nature'

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Review:

(1985) On The Edge
Absence
Amnesia
Arguments For Tenderness
Atmosphere
The Awful Mother
The Bad Mother
Beech
Born Into A World Knowing
Confession
Consummation
Death
Deer Skull
Distress
Dogs
Door
Dream
Fields
Forest
The Gates
Green
Grief
Happiness
Hunger
I Wake Thinking Of Myself As A Man
I Wake To Your Gestures
I Went Very Far Away From Life
Immersion
Knowledge
Knowledge Of The Body
Miracle
Move
My Child
My Daughter Is Hungry
Nature
Now I Write Them Down
Ocean
Oil
Ordinary, As Love
Our Mother
Our Mother Talks About Metaphor
Outside
The Perfect Mother
Pot Of Tea
Prayer For Continuation
Quiet, Quiet Heart
Seven Nights
She Goes Away From Me
Sitting
Sleep
Stories And Poems
A Story
Summer Night
Sunday Morning
Teeth
Three Love Poems
Three Shades Of Light On The Windowsill
Tissue
Torture
Two, Hers And Mine
Under
Wealth
What You Wore That Day
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Library Journal:

Griffin, whose prose examines contemporary culture, uses poetry to probe such issues as womanhoodwoman as mother, as daughter, as sister, and even, in one poem, as man; the politics of humankind; death; love; and metamorphosis. Griffin's voice is gentle but persistent, spare but compassionate. Spanning a decade, this collection demonstrates her growth as a poet. The earlier poems are occasionally cumbersome, dramatic, and needlessly difficult syntactically. The later poems, especially "I Wake Myself Thinking as a Man," "Nature," and "Torture," explore life beyond the limitations of self and individual experience in rhythm that is more natural, resonant. For larger collections. Taryn Schaeneman, English Dept., Kingsborough Community Coll., Brooklyn, N.Y.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 1556590008
• ISBN 13: 9781556590009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 137