Title:
Wound is the origin of wonder : poems / Maya C. Popa.
ISBN:
9781324021360
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2023]
©2023
Physical Description:
95 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Dear Life -- I. Bends -- Everyone Is Having an Island Vacation -- Longing Explained by William James -- Margravine -- Prayer -- Disquiet: A Taxonomy -- On the Subject of Butterflies -- In the Museum of Childhood -- Genii Loci -- After -- Wound Is the Origin of Wonder -- Tears of Things -- II. Fife -- Year -- Owl -- Letters in Winter -- Reading -- At Cutty Sark -- Peacocks -- Dream Vision -- Present Speaks of Past Pain -- Scores -- After a Vase Broken by Marcel Proust -- M40 -- Wound Is the Origin of Wonder -- III. Letter to Noah's Wife -- Late Genesis -- Milton Visits Galileo in Florence -- Ghost Crabs -- A Humbling -- Reprise -- Duress -- Signal -- They Are Building a Hospital -- Pestilence -- All That Is Made -- In Eden -- Aquarium -- Evergreen -- Not the Wound, but What the Wound Implies -- All Inner Life Runs at Some Delay -- Les Neiges D'Antan -- Wound Is the Origin of Wonder -- There Must Be a Meaning -- Spring.
Summary:
"A ravishing volume of poems that explore appetite, desire, and our gratitude for one another and the vanishing world. Award-winning poet Maya C. Popa suggests that our restless desires are inseparable from our mortality in this pressing and precise collection. In lucid, musically rich poems, she appeals to a dwindling natural world and summons moments from the lives of literary forebearers-Milton's visit to Galileo, a vase broken by Marcel Proust-unveiling fresh wonder in the unlikely meetings of the past. Popa's poems dramatize the difficulties of loving a world that is at once rich with beauty and full of opportunities for grief, and reveal that the natural arc of wonder, from astonishment to reflection, more deeply connects us with our humanity"-- Provided by publisher.
Genre:
OCLC Number:
on1331414427
Availability:
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