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Book

Wade in the water : poems

Call Number

  • 811 S6627.1 (CEN, POW)

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Publication Information

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018]

Physical Description

83 pages ; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Summary

A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, using her signature voice--inquisitive, lyrical and wry--mulls over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence, boldly tying America's modern moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.

Contents

  • Garden of Eden
  • The angels
  • Hill country
  • Deadly
  • A man's world
  • The world is your beautiful younger sister
  • Realm of shades
  • Driving to Ottawa
  • Wade in the water
  • Declaration
  • The greatest personal privation
  • Unwritten
  • I will tell you the truth about this, I will tell you all about it
  • Ghazal
  • The United States welcomes you
  • New road station
  • Theatrical improvisation
  • Unrest in Baton Rouge
  • Watershed
  • Political poem
  • Eternity
  • Ash
  • Beatific
  • Charity
  • In your condition
  • 4 1/2
  • Dusk
  • Urban youth
  • The everlasting self
  • Annunciation
  • Refuge
  • An old story.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.