Olives
Subtitle: poems
By: A.E. Stallings
Publisher: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780810152267
Subjects: Classical Mythology; Poetry
Description: Collects poems on a variety of topics, including the joys and anxieties of marriage and motherhood.
Table of contents: title: The argument; title: Olives --; title: Jigsaw puzzle --; title: Recitative --; title: Sublunary --; title: Fibs --; title: The compost heap --; title: The dress of one occasion --; title: Deus ex machina --; title: Telephonophobia --; title: Fear of happiness --; title: The argument --; title: Burned --; title: On visiting a borrowed country house in Arcadia -- -- Extinction of silence; title: Triolet on a line apocryphally ascribed to Martin Luther --; title: Violins --; title: Country song --; title: Sabbatical --; title: The ghost ship --; title: Handbook of the Foley artist --; title: Extinction of silence --; title: Blackbird etude --; title: Lines for Turner Cassity --; title: Funereal stelae: Kerameikos, Athens --; title: The cenotaph --; title: Pop music -- -- Three poems for Psyche; title: The eldest sister to psyche --; title: The boatman to Psyche, on the River Styx --; title: Persephone to Psyche -- -- Fairy-tale logic; title: Fairy-tale logic --; title: The catch --; title: Nursery rhymes: lullaby and rebuttal --; title: Containment --; title: Accident waiting to happen --; title: Dinosaur fever --; title: Tulips --; title: Alice in the looking glass --; title: Umbrage --; title: Hide and seek --; title: Sea girls --; title: Listening to Peter and the wolf with Jason, aged three --; title: The mother's loathing of balloons --; title: Another bedtime story.