Cold Comfort
Published on 15. October 1986
80 pages
978-0-8229-7897-8 (ISBN)
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Cold Comfort is a book of poems written out of deep affection and concern for the world in a dangerous time. An urbane stylist, Anderson characteristically focuses on rural and small-town America, where the events of personal history intersect those of the larger world.
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Maggie Anderson
Cold Comfort
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10/1986
University of Pittsburgh Press
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Maggie Anderson is the author of several poetry collections including, Years That Answer, Windfall, and A Space Filled with Moving. She is the editor of Hill Daughter: New and Selected Poems of Louise McNeill, and co-editor of A Gathering of Poets, and Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School. Anderson has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. She teaches creative writing at Kent State University where she directs the Wick Poetry Program and edits the Wick Poetry Series through the Kent State University Press.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- To Carry All of Us
- Country Wisdoms
- Palimpsest
- Related to the Sky
- Cemetery, Saint Joseph's Settlement
- With Wine
- The Wash in My Grandmother's Arms
- Gray
- To Carry All of Us
- What I'm Learning from Your Childhood
- Belongings
- As Close
- Spitting in the Leaves
- The Choices of Horses
- Belongings
- Independence Day, Terra Alta, West Virginia, 1935
- Among Elms and Maples, Morgantown, West Virginia, August, 1935
- Mining Camp Residents, West Virginia, July, 1935
- Street Scene, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1935
- House and Graveyard, Rowlesburg, West Virginia, 1935
- Dream Vegetables
- The Artist
- To Draw Pictures
- Exposure
- Falling
- Examination
- Nightmare
- Insomnia
- Recurring
- Flying
- Nap Dreams
- Sweet Resin
- Art in America
- In Singing Weather
- Heart Fire
- Small Citizens
- The Only Jazz Bar in Salt Lake
- In My Mothers House
- The Thing You Must Remember
- Far
- A Small Pause Surrounded by the Weather
- Before Winter
- Heart Fire
- Anything We Leave Forever
- Civilization
- Notes
