Whitethorn : Poems.
Title:
Whitethorn : Poems.
Author:
Osherow, Jacqueline.
ISBN:
9780807138366
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (79 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- I -- Poem for Jenne -- Proust on the Slow Train from Grosseto -- Reading The Makioka Sisters on the Sidney / Anacortes Ferry -- Camouflage (Useless Bay, Whidbey Island) -- Autumn Cottonwood -- Autobiographical: Another Draft -- Sonnets from The Song of Songs -- I (Thorns/Forest) -- II (Buds/Turtledove) -- III (Kisses/Wine) -- Snow in Umbria -- Tulip Ode -- Moon Sonnet -- Jenne's Rose -- Paestum Thunderstorm, Twenty Years On -- Cherries -- Self-Portrait with Lilacs -- II -- Orders of Infinity -- Villanelle on the Oldest Known Piece of Writing -- Whitethorn -- Western Red Cedar: Missing Psalm -- Variations on Variations -- Flanders Sonnet -- In a Storm, Revisiting Isaiah -- Todas las Puertas.
Abstract:
The pervasive theme throughout "Whitethorn" is that human suffering may be irremediable, yet in nature and language one may find a key to unlock the mysteries of sorrow. Osherow searches for that cipher by exploring a range of suffering, from the personal to the historical and cultural. In the poem "Orders of Infinity" she visits Treblinka and, in her inability to count the headstones or quantify the real loss of the Holocaust, recalls an infinity of unfinished lives, "undreamed daydreams, mute conversations, ungratified indulgences, failed hints . . ." A book of enormous scope and emotional intelligence, Osherow unflinchingly examines her own dark night of the soul and courageously probes the greater mystery of evil and suffering in the world.
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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