Strange Wood,9780807123508

Strange Wood

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ISBN13: 9780807123508
ISBN10: 0807123501
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-03-01
Publisher(s): Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Summary

Strange Wood, the recipient of the 1997 Winthrop University Poetry Series Award, contains verse remarkable for its fearless insight. The first poems in this lush, lyrical collection are populated with infants and adolescents, while the middle section gives way to bewildered, misguided adults, who are futilely attempting to understand and conquer the myriad difficulties of modern life. The last poems are concerned with deaths -- in the family, in history, and in the abstract. In this astounding debut, Prufer reminds us of the fragility of life in a world where "everything's / the chance for flying / failing somehow", and loss is the hardest truth of all -- "the body blooms, unfolding / then is gone".

Table of Contents

ONE
11(18)
November Birthday
11(1)
Strange Wood
12(2)
The Secret Knowledge of Children
14(1)
Swimming Lesson
15(1)
1979
16(1)
My Father Recounts a Story from His Youth
17(2)
After George Bellows' Blue Morning
19(1)
The Babysitter's Devotion
20(1)
Ways of Seeing
21(1)
Gathering Hickory Nuts in the Woods
22(1)
Winter in Devessey
23(1)
Memory of Boarding School
24(1)
Night of the Adolescents
25(4)
TWO
29(18)
You Are Talking to Another Man at the Party
29(1)
The Man in Miami
30(2)
Letters from Late Romances
32(1)
Lullaby
33(1)
The Third Rail
34(2)
Transoceanic
36(1)
My Sister and the Mist
37(1)
On Finding a Swastika Carved on a Tree in the Hills above Heidelberg
38(1)
Inside the Civil War Furnace
39(1)
Love Poem
40(1)
The Astronomer's Prayer to the Andromeda Galaxy
41(1)
Comedy of Manners
42(1)
Radio, Radio
43(1)
Nocturnal
44(3)
THREE
47(15)
Into the Canyon
47(2)
My Mother's Song to Her Mother
49(1)
Unrising
50(1)
For Cynthia, Resting
51(1)
Coriolis
52(1)
The Underwater Tunnel
53(1)
Amelia Earhart Speaks Again
54(1)
Aviary
55(1)
December Birthdays
56(1)
The Angels of Mons
57(1)
Two Oranges
58(1)
For the Dead
59(1)
Memory
60(1)
Returning to Friedrichskoog
61(1)
Notes 62

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