Hour of the ox
By: Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
Series: Pitt poetry series; Pitt poetry series
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9780822964216
Subjects: Grief; Families; Sijo; Home; Immigrants; Poetry
Description: "Hour of the Ox examines the multiplicity of distance, wanderlust, and grief at the intersection between filial and cultural responsibility. Desires are sloughed off, replaced by new ones, re-cultivated as mythos. These poems offer a complex and necessary new perspective on the elegiac immigrant song"
Table of contents: title: Anti-elegy -- -- I.; title: Old country, new world --; title: Disconsolate brother returns as penumbra --; title: Postmarked --; title: Bonsai --; title: Restitution for the grandson --; title: All the sheep have scattered --; title: Invocation --; title: Happiness --; title: Oath --; title: Cultivation --; title: Herdboy and weaver --; title: From the dictionary of obscure sorrows --; title: Brother returns as chrysanthemum --; title: History --; title: Generosity --; title: Your mouth is full of birds --; title: In season --; title: The last supper -- -- II.; title: Ode to hunger --; title: Brother returns as octopus --; title: The sea urchin --; title: Haenyeo : image of the pearl diver --; title: The pear divers' daughter --; title: The asked-for day --; title: Penance --; title: Last half of a letter from home --; title: Apodyopsis --; title: Storm elegy --; title: Diffusion --; title: Remedies for grieving --; title: Brother returns as sunflower --; title: Vase of ashes --; title: Apperception --; title: Brother who does not surface --; title: Sijo for early spring, year of the boar --; title: Returning home --; title: Songs of thirst : six sijo.