All of it singing : new and selected poems

Gregg, Linda. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1555975070
ISBN: 9781555975074
ISBN: 9781555975784 (pbk.)
ISBN: 155597578X (pbk.)
ISBN: 1555975070
ISBN: 9781555975074
Physical Description: print
213 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A Jane Kenyon book"--T.p. verso.

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: from Too Bright to See -- We Manage Most When We Manage Small -- The Girl I Call Alma -- The Chorus Speaks Her Words as She Dances -- There She Is -- The Beckett Kit -- The Poet Goes About Her Business -- Different Not Less -- Trouble in the Portable Marriage -- Classicism -- Whole and Without Blessing -- Growing Up -- Summer in a Small Town -- No More Marriages -- Eurydice -- The Defeated -- Too Bright to See -- The Apparent -- The Gods Must Not Know Us -- The Grub -- This Place -- What If the World Stays Always Far Off -- Sun Moon Kelp Flower or Goat -- Skylord -- Alma to Her Sister -- From Alma -- At Home -- Safe and Beautiful -- The Ghosts Poem -- Marriage and Midsummer's Night -- Balancing Everything -- At the Gate in the Middle of My Life -- Not Saying Much -- Oedipus Exceeding -- The Shopping-Bag Lady -- Lies and Longing -- How the Joy of It Was Used Up Long Ago -- The Men Like Salmon -- The Copperhead -- Death Looks Down -- New York Address -- Dry Grass & Old Color of the Fence & Smooth Hills -- If Death Wants Me -- Praising Spring -- from The Sacraments of Desire -- Glistening -- Ordinary Songs -- Surrounded by Sheep and Low Ground -- The Small Thing Love Is -- Ahdaam Kai Ava -- All the Spring Lends Itself to Her -- Night Music -- The Design inside Them -- In Dirt under Olive Trees on the Hill at Evening -- Not Scattered Variously Far -- A Dark Thing inside the Day -- The Last Night in Mithymna -- Part of Me Wanting Everything to Live -- The Color of Many Deer Running -- Grinding the Lens -- Singing Enough to Feel the Rain -- The War -- The Foreign Language of the Heart -- The Life of Literature -- Inside the War -- There Is No Language in This Country -- The Border between Things -- It Is the Rising I Love -- The Song -- Demon-Catchers on Our Doors -- from Chosen by the Lion -- The Ninth Dawn -- God's Places -- The Weight -- The Spirit and What Is Left Behind -- Chosen by the Lion -- Official Love Story -- The Terrifying Power of Darkness Is Inseparable from the Redemptive Power of the Sacred -- I Thought on His Desire for Three Days -- The Clapping -- Asking for Directions -- The Resurrection -- Aphrodite and the Nature of Art -- Winter Light -- The Lost Bells of Heaven -- There Is a Sweetness in It -- Fishing in the Keep of Silence -- "Wherefore Dost Bruise Me?" He Exclaimed, Weeping, and Like a Corpse Fell to the Ground -- "A Bracelet of Bright Hair about the Bone" -- Maybe Leave-Taking -- The Edge of Something -- The Bounty after the Bounty -- Let Birds -- from Things and Flesh -- The Precision -- Alone with the Goddess -- The Calves Not Chosen -- Calamities: Another Eden -- The Spirit Neither Sorts nor Separates -- As Being Is Eternal -- The Heart Flowing Out -- The Empty Bowl -- More Than New -- Etiology -- Another Day in Paradise -- Heavy with Things and Flesh -- A Thirst Against -- The Limits of Desire -- Always Mistaken -- They Tell Me It's Over -- Arkansas Afternoons -- "Why does this city still retain / its ancient rights over my thoughts and feelings?" -- Stuff -- The Unknowing -- Fiefdom -- The Universe on Its Own -- Downsized -- Paul on the Road to Damascus -- Hephaestus Alone -- The Right People -- The Secrets of Poetry -- Harmonica -- Lost in the Heart -- Winning -- from In the Middle Distance -- The Lightning -- Purity -- Staying After -- Elegance -- Getting Value -- As Is -- The Other Excitement -- The Otherness -- The Problem of Sentences -- Beauty -- Waiting -- The Presence in Absence -- After the Fires -- Silence and Glare -- According to the Hour -- "They Cripple with Beauty and Butcher with Love" -- Searching for the Poem -- The Stories Are Strenuous -- Bamboo and a Bird -- Always Alone -- The Test Is Whether Anything Breaks Off When You Roll It Down Stairs -- Quietly -- Not Knowing the Rules -- I Do Not Need the Gods to Return -- Now I Understand -- The Singers Change, the Music Goes On -- It Goes Away -- Whoever -- Highway 90 -- New Poems -- If We Are Quiet -- Another Mountain -- August in the East Village -- Being Eleven -- The Generosity of Engagement -- Losing Them -- Hearing the Gods -- Behave Yourself -- Arriving -- You Never Loved Me -- A Little Less Pleasing -- Captured -- Never So Far -- No One Listens -- I Wish I Could Believe -- Getting Down -- Just Before Night -- The Richness of Loss -- Walking on the Bottom of the World -- The Source of Romantic Love -- Christ Loved Being Housed.