The Curator's Notes
Description
A gorgeously deft book, The Curator's Notes dares to question the Edenic. It asks, why not take the knowledge at hand hanging like "plump, purple orbs...begging to be eaten..."? And what can we grow with states of paradise being ever fleeting? This curator is a custodian of both specific and collective heritage, connecting daughter to mother to grandmother to wife to husband to the backyard garden to that garden of old where, as in the womb, knowing is limited and inevitable. In her sensual and tender book, Robin Rosen Chang has taken care to graciously offer us lyrics that swirl around and beyond our expectations until we accept both the churning waters and the radiant flight of circling birds as part of the story of life moving all too swiftly with and ultimately toward "the loam -/sand, silt, and clay."
-Vievee Francis
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- My Mother Was Water
- I
- Lore
- Shore Birds
- When my husband says something about desire
- On My Mind
- Black Ocean
- Indian Creek with Neighbor Boy
- A Woman in the A&P Asks Me Where I Got My Baby
- Futility
- Bleeding into the Garden
- The Creation of Adam
- The Curator's Notes
- II
- Apple
- Riptide
- Disobedient Tongue
- Ashamed
- The Snake
- Guernica Mother
- Moon
- Physical Exam
- After Emptying the Kitchen Cabinets
- Pears
- The Gothic Quarter
- Great Green Macaw
- III
- Many things I am not-
- Photograph with My Mother
- Sublime
- Holding On
- Motherless, Eve
- Cleaning the Apartment
- Elegy for My Aunt
- Exploratory Surgery
- The Fig Leaf
- At the Beach
- IV
- Brisket
- Ciutadella Park
- Day of Gravestone Unveiling
- Daughter-At Four Years Old
- After Eden
- We peered into the shadow
- Chickadee
- Salve
- Elegy for My Stepmother
- Sagrada Familia
- Aubade to My Husband
- Chagall's Kite
- Shore Liturgy
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
