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Trace of One.
Title:
Trace of One.
Author:
Goodman, Joanna.
ISBN:
9781587294105
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (67 pages)
Series:
Iowa Poetry Prize ; v.1

Iowa Poetry Prize
Contents:
I -- Tebaide -- . . . Took Form Again -- Falser Certainty -- de' Fiori -- The Succession of Parts -- Take Aim -- Beech Tree in March -- Enchanted -- Benares -- A Light Arch of Cloud, Ten Fingers Wide -- On the Holy Friar Crossing a Suspension Bridge to Paradise -- Conversion -- This Is Joy -- Directions -- Pian dell'Arca -- Coming of Age -- II -- Wave -- Trace of One -- How Did You Come to Know -- Reasons for Everything -- Of Force and Distance -- Where to End -- Port de Grave -- Departure -- Watermark -- What Brought Them There -- The Aftermath -- Resuscitation -- Recitative -- The Dry Spell -- After Being Called Naive, I Consult The Single Source for People Who Need to Be Right -- Examples of Use -- What You Can Expect This Month -- Coming Up Violets -- The Moon Smiled Cheekily -- Home -- Laws of Motion -- In an Excessive Corridor -- Notes.
Abstract:
In Trace of One,real geographies merge with spiritual ones, just as details of the speaker's physical and emotional worlds intertwine with the transcendent realms of science, religion, and myth. Joanna Goodman's poems share a sense of spatial and temporal displacement-they are love poems to a place, whether it be a field, a room, or a paradise-they celebrate their subjects, but they are also poems of grief and solitude. The poems resonate with ethereal echoes paradoxically emitted by an increasingly demystified world in which mechanical explanations for the workings of the human mind and body bump up against the mystery and obliqueness of the soul.
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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