Spans
New and Selected Poems
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2014
142 pages
978-0-8071-5707-7 (ISBN)
Description
Through the poems in Spans, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan examines life from the perspective of one who appreciates the complexities of the world but finds pleasure in events as predictable as the changing of the seasons or as uncomplicated as a visit to an art museum. Morgan accepts the inevitability of change but mourns the loss of "e,what we don't know / that we cannot live without."e,By couching her wry insights in deceptively simple language, Morgan can commemorate a long-ago game of hide-and-seek in the same darkly humorous tone that she employs to recall tragedies both natural and manmade. With wit and more than a touch of melancholy, she contemplates the disappearance of the world's honeybees, the vagaries of friendships and romances, and the quiet satisfaction of garden plantings. Her poems invite the reader to examine without resentment the multifaceted world we inhabit, with all its frustrations and pleasures.
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Content
- COVER
- CONTENTS
- PARTIES
- The Party before the Party
- Every Fact Is a Field
- The Party
- The Adamsons' Peacocks
- Counting Sheep
- Heron
- Halloween
- Safeway
- Stillness Like This
- Waiting for You
- Seasons
- Volcanic
- UFO Off the Coast of Maine
- Island Life
- Fall Jazz
- Caravati's Junkyard
- All My Friends' Pets Are Growing Old
- Beyond Recognition
- January Flies
- Luncheon of the Boating Party
- THE GOVERNOR OF DESIRE
- Ungovernable
- Do You or I or Anyone Know
- Laws of Nature
- Do You Remember Where You Were?
- Mother's Side
- Puritans
- A Summer Lover's Book
- What Is the Most Elvis Ever Weighed?
- Heart's Core
- The Uninvestigated Stanza
- Sounds that Have Gone from Our Lives
- The Place You Left
- Branches
- What Turns the Wheel of Fortune
- Czechoslovakia 1989
- Sunset on Eastern Beaches
- Matthew in Uniform
- Define Space
- Define Time
- Loss Without Ceremony
- ON LONG MOUNTAIN
- Perseid Night
- Unarmed
- Gnat Facts on NPR
- Blues in the Blue Ridge
- Sensing Winter
- Can't You Hear Me Singing, Alfred Prufrock?
- Willem de Kooning Declared Incompetent
- Ways to Go
- Like Young Men
- Painting the Blue Ridge Red
- Leaving the Butterfly Bush
- Enthusiasm
- Unbalanced
- "Now Words Are Surrounded by Spaces"
- Nameless
- Momentary Travels
- Even in Foxes
- Poetry Reading
- Valdosta
- At the End of August
- Swing, Boat, Table
- WITHOUT A PHILOSOPHY
- Without a Philosophy
- Diagnosis, After Dickinson
- Bombing Yugoslavia
- The Well
- Shutters
- Drawing Lesson: Outline and Edge
- The Present
- December 2001
- The Glutton of Grief
- Driving Alone
- Watching the Weather Channel
- Cow Bone Clearing
- Everybody's Coming in for the Winter
- Redwood, Dogwood, and Crow
- You, Archie Ammons
- How Space Travel Affects the Aging
- Singapore Art Museum in the Rain
- The Last Paintings of Manet
- Euripides' Cave
- Stealing Grace
- Blessing the Water Snakes
- The Californian
- Black Animals
- NEW POEMS
- The Owner Is Leaving This House
- Here Comes Something and I Can't Lock the Door
- Would Someone Want to Poison Me?
- Ten Days in France in April
- The Irony of Poppies
- A Poem Too Short for Its Subject
- A D D
- Not So Bad as Labor Without an Epidural
- Widow's Walk
- Creation Theory
- Vigil
- The Tiny Fig Wasp It Cannot Live Without
- February Burglary
- August Evening
- Dumb Bunny
- Weather Reporters
- September 2011
- The Brain's Refusal
- Woman Drowning in Her House
- A Version Of
- Sacrificial Metal
- Philip Larkin on Hearing a Poem
- Rounding the Curve by the Fake Police Car
- Christmas Eve, You in Florida
- Skating up to Eighty
- Florida
- The Span
