Course
By: Athena Kildegaard
Publisher: Tinderbox Editions
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Red Wing, Minnesota
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9781943981090
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Grief; Poetry; Mothers; American poetry
Description: "The poems in Athena Kildegaard's Course contain multitudes: garter snakes, bats, herons, wild rhubarb, 'the thousand/reed-hidden/black-birds.' But their central concern surrounds the complex life and death of a mother, and attendant mourning for her. Trust and doubt coexist in these pages, and the natural world offers solace but never complete reassurance: 'How vain to seek certainty,' Kildegaard writes. Indeed, the book ends with a poem comprised of spacious questions. As readers, we are caught in the current of this marvelous book, which is as honest and deep-flowing and eternal as the river that passes through its pages"--Connie Wanek, author of Rival Gardens: New and Selected Poems.
Table of contents: title: What signal; title: Get a body through; title: Sharp distance; title: Detour; title: From the shadow; title: Weight of a body.