Snake in the Parsonage
Published on 1. October 1995
73 pages
978-1-68099-269-4 (ISBN)
Description
Snake in the Parsonage includes the poems for which Jean Janzen received The Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Selected by a panel of major poets. Once again Jean Janzen shows us life -- colored deeply and in irrepressible light. She finds both ecstasy and incompleteness -- while waiting, at the piano and in the halls of the old people's home, lying in the field, shrieking in the cellar, standing at the blackboard.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Piano Lesson
- I. Identifying the Fire
- Identifying the Fire
- At Drake's Bay
- New Country
- Summer in the Dark: 1944
- Facets
- Anna Rieger at the Blackboard
- Note to Dee
- Snake in the Parsonage
- Chicken Guts
- II. Looking for the Soul
- Dividing the Night
- Order
- Women of the Cloth
- Going West
- How They Loved
- Among Orange Trees
- In the Mission Garden
- Toward the End of the Century
- Sleepless Under Down
- St. Basil's Cathedral
- Finding the Pearl
- Home
- Glocken
- Looking for the Soul
- III. New Order
- Dusty Miller Moth
- Chicago, 1954
- Anniversaries
- "Movement of Vaulted Chambers"
- You Talk with Your Hands
- Story of Leave
- New Order
- The Jewish Bride
- The Rowing
- IV. Wild Grapes
- Another Life
- Cover Me
- Flash Flood
- Gardens of the Body
- Wild Grapes
- Watermelon Pickles
- Country Home
- Floodtides of Poland
- Sometimes Hope
- Mockingbird
- Walnut Orchard
- White Field
- In November
- Photographs of the Wild
- Blue Piano
- About the Poet
