Ledger.
Title:
Ledger.
Author:
Wheeler, Susan.
ISBN:
9781587296017
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (95 pages)
Series:
Iowa Poetry Prize
Contents:
Contents -- Loss Lieder -- Proper Return -- That Been to Me My Lives Light and Saviour -- Roanoke and Wampumpeag -- The Green Stamp Book -- Carnival -- Doubled Indemnity -- Each's Cot an Alter Then -- Short Shrift -- Surfeit -- Hand, Mouth, Market -- Good Goods -- Charity Must Abide Call for Ancient Occupation -- Anthem -- Romanticism -- Money and God -- Depleted Stocks -- Figures on a Kylix ... -- Trade -- Barry Lyndon in Spring Lake, 1985 -- Song of the Deserving -- Port in the Airport -- Toward Autumn -- Overtaxed Lament -- The Debtor in the Convex Mirror -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
The many meanings of "economy" are the ground for the mediation and lament of Ledger, Susan Wheeler's fourth book. In its Greek origins, economy referred to the stewardship of a household and, as it developed, the word also came to include aspects of government and of religious faith. Ledger places an individual's crisis of spirituality and personal stewardship, or management of her resources, against a backdrop of a culture that has focused its "economy" on financial gain and has misspent its own tangible and intangible resources.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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