Title: What to tip the boatman? /
Authors: Mathis, Cleopatra, 1947-; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Mother and child Poetry; Motherhood Poetry; Mothers Poetry
Contents: The owl -- Old trick -- Solstice -- Noon -- Two girls -- Graduation party -- That year -- Presentiment -- The refusal -- For months -- The tunnel -- White primer -- Search -- Cutlery -- "as if mad is a direction, like west ..." -- The ruin -- Little map -- Self-portrait with horse -- Intermediary -- The horse -- 6 A.M. -- Dei Gratia -- Art presentation, senior year -- After persephone -- The return -- Making a life -- Something to save -- What to tip the boatman? -- Demeter -- Persephone, answering -- Fist -- History -- What disappears -- Reconciled -- An elegy -- Ocular occlusion -- Saving herself -- The bow -- The goodbye -- Under Moose mountain -- Fall at Wellfleet beach -- House of clocks -- Gatekeeper -- The betrayal -- Demeter the pilgrim -- Figure of formal loss: Pearl -- Living here.