Hundred-year wave
By: Rachel Richardson
Series: Carnegie Mellon poetry series; Carnegie Mellon poetry
Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9780887486104
Subjects: American poetry
Other titles: 100 year wave
Work titles: Poems
Description: "Immaculately yet organically structured, Rachel Richardson's 'Hundred-Year Wave' dives and sails and swims from the cosmic to the personal, accounting for the epical, sublime and tragic, and the lyrical, hymnal and elegiac. The sea is the book's domain and the source of energy, its grief and soalce; and in wave after wave of remarkable poetry bearing wit and grit and tenderness, it heralds the arrival of a poet of great poise and prodigious lyrical gifts."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-78).
Table of contents: title: Navigator --; title: Nature show, 3 a.m. --; title: A brief history of the whale fishery --; title: Mirror --; title: Canticle in the fish's belly --; title: Aquarius --; title: Queenstown --; title: Her stillness --; title: Theory of desire: the Essex --; title: Mistranslation of a fragment by da Vinci --; title: Serpentinite, Jasper, and Clay --; title: Plath's cakes --; title: Rogue wave --; title: "Drowning doesn't look like drowning" --; title: Erosion [Eros] --; title: At the cutting-in --; title: Theory of desire: the wrecks --; title: Heartbeat --; title: Ultrasound --; title: A gift cannot be refused --; title: Susan Barnard Gardner, b. 1826, New Bedford --; title: Tide book --; title: Double aquarius --; title: Constellation --; title: A prow, a view --; title: Whale study --; title: Cathedral --; title: Boy in bluebird pajama's --; title: The unmaking --; title: Labyrinth --; title: Notes on 'nature show, 3 a.m." --; title: The sisters --; title: Astronomer --; title: Theory of desire: the animal --; title: In the week that my grandmother stopped eating --; title: Vigil --; title: Still --; title: Fog, land's end --; title: Transmission --; title: Port --; title: I and thou --; title: Seaside --; title: Anemones --; title: Of whales in paint; in teeth; in wood; in sheet-iron; in stone; in mountains; in stars --; title: Shearwater.