Waters of the afternoon
Subtitle: a song in three voices
By: Claudia Jensen Dudley
Publisher: Browser Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9780982850107
Other titles: Sushila's canticles.
Notes: "This edition contains a CD recording of 'Sushila's canticles' ... sung by mezzo soprano Lori Hedrick Helfand, with piano accompaniment by the poet/composer."--P. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: I.; title: Prelude: The Question --  -- II.; title: Narada/Sushila --  -- 1.; title: Long I have let this song remain below --  -- 2.; title: Into one pool I fell and out of another --  -- 3.; title: I am remembering the sleeping pool --  -- 4.; title: I am seventeen and said to be lovely --  -- 5.; title: I am given in marriage to the finest prince --  -- 6.; title: What is this body and who am I --  -- 7.; title: My days and nights turn, then become full years --  -- 8.; title: My sons have children of their own --  -- 9.; title: And when I cried these words, the fire --  -- III.; title: Interlude: Between Journeys --  -- IV.; title: King Solomon --  -- 1.; title: Solomon, Solomon, hone your fame --  -- 2.; title: By day, my life goes on --  -- 3.; title: Then I remember Asmodeus --  -- 4.; title: The other beggars are much like me --  -- 5.; title: At first, we glimpse each other now and then --  -- 6.; title: The desert's smell is sweet --  -- 7.; title: The wave casts me onto a distant shore --  -- 8.; title: I have traveled for so many years --  -- 9.; title: The long wave, days-long, carries me --  -- V.; title: Interlude: The Directive --  -- VI.; title: Alma Sorensen --  -- 1.; title: Alma Sorensen, I know you do not wander --  -- 2.; title: It is all still the same, always the same --  -- 3.; title: Where are you taking me and what is my name here --  -- 4.; title: Ans because, Alma, you are beyond body and death --  -- 5.; title: I go down --  -- 6.; title: Is this what I asked to see --  -- 7.; title: At last she speaks --  -- 8.; title: Perhaps that was the only way to stop --  -- 9.; title: I must go back, go back --  -- VII.; title: Sushila's Canticles --  -- 1.; title: How many times --  -- 2.; title: Oh sweetness under the limbs of willows --  -- 3.; title: With the gold of my pain --  -- 4.; title: I adore the opening to what you are --  -- 5.; title: You have traveled so long and so far --  -- 6.; title: Not less than this rose unfolding --  -- 7.; title: What is this dance I Was designed for --  -- 8.; title: How is it that in making your departure.