Not Many Love Poems
Published on 29. September 2011
96 pages
978-1-84777-951-9 (ISBN)
Description
Not Many Love Poems tells the stories of a life, the stories kept close to the heart: long friendships and shorter love affairs, close bonds of family scattered across transatlantic distances, passion and loss. Loved friends and family, the living, the dead: vital presences.
From recollections of childhood and adolescence on Long Island to warm, unsentimental evocations of the new life-stage of grandparenthood, from adventures with lovers to a journey through breast cancer treatment, Linda Chase writes of a life richly lived, with wit, candour and a feisty energy. At the centre of the collection is a sequence of poems composed during a close friend's final year. An account of grief and love, it celebrates the gift of 'numberless, glorious, blessed days', in which 'our stories give themselves away'.
Cover Painting by Joseph St. Amand. Private Collection. Reproduced by kind permission
From recollections of childhood and adolescence on Long Island to warm, unsentimental evocations of the new life-stage of grandparenthood, from adventures with lovers to a journey through breast cancer treatment, Linda Chase writes of a life richly lived, with wit, candour and a feisty energy. At the centre of the collection is a sequence of poems composed during a close friend's final year. An account of grief and love, it celebrates the gift of 'numberless, glorious, blessed days', in which 'our stories give themselves away'.
Cover Painting by Joseph St. Amand. Private Collection. Reproduced by kind permission
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
File size
0,54 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84777-951-9 (9781847779519)
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Linda Chase grew up on Long Island, New York and was educated at Bennington College in Vermont. She later did an MA in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. In between, she was a stage costume designer in San Francisco and Edinburgh, and a Tai Chi teacher, later specialising in Tai Chi for special needs. She lived in Manchester where she set up the Manchester branch of the Poetry School and was the founding Director of Poets and Players, a series of poetry and music performances. Linda Chase died in April 2011.
Content
I Many Love Poems
Our Life11
One Summer Night12
First Thought13
The Word for It14
Be Home by Midnight15
Old Flame16
Corsican Summer17
Fire18
Airstream Bubble Trailer19
The Tao tells me to go on loving you20
Hotel21
Dare22
Fallowfield24
Married Man25
Late26
His Book27
Marriage28
Separation29
Old Jewish Men30
Yesterday31
II Kisses and Harps
Kisses
At Arm's Length35
Primary Colours36
How to Make Breasts Disappear37
Ticks and Kisses38
Health Scare39
Non-Poetics40
Sleeping41
Lost Souls from Christie Hospital42
Radiotherapy43
Ray Charles Visits Suite 1, Radiotherapy Department,
Christie Hospital, Manchester, England44
Harps
Pronouncement46
Max47
Gift House48
Care Givers49
Candour50
Dwight Way51
Harp in the Sick Room52
Dying53
Asleep and Awake54
Resting Place55
Home Funeral56
The Midst57
The Twenty-four Hours58
III Our Lives
Taffeta61
Name62
Contract for Love and Death63
Jazzer65
Winter on Long Island66
Till Graduation67
Deceased, Class of 195968
Giveaway69
August70
We know it's not the same river every day71
6 August, 194573
Sometimes Snow75
Prospect Cottage76
Mittens77
Banana Crossing78
On the Way to the Wedding79
Secret80
The Crawl81
The Only Mother82
Better83
Our Life11
One Summer Night12
First Thought13
The Word for It14
Be Home by Midnight15
Old Flame16
Corsican Summer17
Fire18
Airstream Bubble Trailer19
The Tao tells me to go on loving you20
Hotel21
Dare22
Fallowfield24
Married Man25
Late26
His Book27
Marriage28
Separation29
Old Jewish Men30
Yesterday31
II Kisses and Harps
Kisses
At Arm's Length35
Primary Colours36
How to Make Breasts Disappear37
Ticks and Kisses38
Health Scare39
Non-Poetics40
Sleeping41
Lost Souls from Christie Hospital42
Radiotherapy43
Ray Charles Visits Suite 1, Radiotherapy Department,
Christie Hospital, Manchester, England44
Harps
Pronouncement46
Max47
Gift House48
Care Givers49
Candour50
Dwight Way51
Harp in the Sick Room52
Dying53
Asleep and Awake54
Resting Place55
Home Funeral56
The Midst57
The Twenty-four Hours58
III Our Lives
Taffeta61
Name62
Contract for Love and Death63
Jazzer65
Winter on Long Island66
Till Graduation67
Deceased, Class of 195968
Giveaway69
August70
We know it's not the same river every day71
6 August, 194573
Sometimes Snow75
Prospect Cottage76
Mittens77
Banana Crossing78
On the Way to the Wedding79
Secret80
The Crawl81
The Only Mother82
Better83
