Janowitz Visiting Rites

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5553-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 96 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets

From an award-winning poet, a poignant collection that wrestles with anxiety, boredom, fear, and grief

Visiting Rites was published to critical acclaim in 1982 and was a finalist for the National Book Award the following year. This Princeton Legacy Library edition of Phyllis Janowitz’s mesmerizing collection expands on themes of isolation and identity so familiar to her readers with intricately woven poems about the rituals of aging, communion, and confining cultural roles. Tempered with vulnerability, empathy, and uncommon humor, Visiting Rites is an invigorating reflection on longing, love, rejection, and the heartbreak that ennobles us.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Janowitz, Phyllis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
Case, pg. 3
Mrs. Lucky, pg. 4
The Apple Tree and Mrs. Lucky Enter Winter Together, pg. 6
Compensations, pg. 8
Games and Refrains of Children, pg. 10
Letitia and Prue, pg. 13
Visiting Rites, pg. 21
The Grandmothers are Getting Younger, pg. 23
The Soul has no Morality, pg. 24
Promises, pg. 27
Music of Stars and Wheels, pg. 28
The Contagious Hospital, pg. 29
Home, pg. 31
The Party, pg. 33
Tone Poem for the Spring of the Year, pg. 34
Rejects, pg. 39
Facts and Figures, pg. 40
Fisherman’s Wife, pg. 42
The Fisherman, pg. 43
Fisherman’s Wife #2, pg. 44
Minuet in a Minor Key, pg. 46
Electronic Capriccio for Solo Electron, pg. 47
Dry Soup, pg. 57
Liberty, pg. 58
Baptism at Stow Lake, pg. 60
Cygnet, pg. 62
Film, pg. 64
Cells, pg. 66
Waiting for Father in Pawling, N. Y., pg. 67
Solitude, pg. 69
Synechdoche by the Beautiful Sea, pg. 70
Jitters, pg. 71
Mendota River Inn, pg. 73
After the Fiesta at Mendota River, pg. 77
Celebration, pg. 80
Archaeology, pg. 81
Juice, pg. 83

Über Autor(innen)

Phyllis Janowitz (1930–2014) taught creative writing and poetry at Cornell University. Her books include Temporary Dwellings and Rites of Strangers.