University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986 eISBN: 978-0-8229-7897-8 | Paper: 978-0-8229-5384-5 Library of Congress Classification PS3551.N3745C6 1986 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
<I>Cold Comfort</I> is a book of poems written out of deep affection and concern for the world in a dangerous time. An urbane stylist, Anderson characteristically focuses on rural and small-town America, where the events of personal history intersect those of the larger world.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Maggie Anderson is the author of several poetry collections including, Years That Answer, Windfall, and A Space Filled with Moving. She is the editor of Hill Daughter: New and Selected Poems of Louise McNeill, and co-editor of A Gathering of Poets, and Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School. Anderson has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. She teaches creative writing at Kent State University where she directs the Wick Poetry Program and edits the Wick Poetry Series through the Kent State University Press.
REVIEWS
“We are struck by the generosity of a voice that manages to bridge the gap between a personal and a world view, a balance that reveals a narrator who is of the world yet not overwhelmed by it.” —Prairie Schooner
“She is primarily a poet of moral urgency—a political poet as we say these days—but she is never shrill, relying on the tensions inherent in the natural world rather than rhetoric.”
—American Book Review
“The crux of Maggie Anderson’s poems is the strong narrative line, one accompanied by an abundance of lore based in the folkways of the people. And her energy is that very essence of the old stories and poetry—present in the talk of ordinary people.”
—Shelby Stephenson
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
To Carry All of Us
Country Wisdoms
Palimpsest
Related to the Sky
Cemetery, Saint Joseph's Settlement
With Wine
The Wash in My Grandmother's Arms
Gray
To Carry All of Us
What I'm Learning from Your Childhood
Belongings
As Close
Spitting in the Leaves
The Choices of Horses
Belongings
Independence Day, Terra Alta, West Virginia, 1935
Among Elms and Maples, Morgantown, West Virginia, August, 1935
Mining Camp Residents, West Virginia, July, 1935
Street Scene, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1935
House and Graveyard, Rowlesburg, West Virginia, 1935
Dream Vegetables
The Artist
To Draw Pictures
Exposure
Falling
Examination
Nightmare
Insomnia
Recurring
Flying
Nap Dreams
Sweet Resin
Art in America
In Singing Weather
Heart Fire
Small Citizens
The Only Jazz Bar in Salt Lake
In My Mother's House
The Thing You Must Remember
Far
A Small Pause Surrounded by the Weather
Before Winter
Heart Fire
Anything We Leave Forever
Civilization
Notes
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986 eISBN: 978-0-8229-7897-8 Paper: 978-0-8229-5384-5
<I>Cold Comfort</I> is a book of poems written out of deep affection and concern for the world in a dangerous time. An urbane stylist, Anderson characteristically focuses on rural and small-town America, where the events of personal history intersect those of the larger world.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Maggie Anderson is the author of several poetry collections including, Years That Answer, Windfall, and A Space Filled with Moving. She is the editor of Hill Daughter: New and Selected Poems of Louise McNeill, and co-editor of A Gathering of Poets, and Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School. Anderson has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. She teaches creative writing at Kent State University where she directs the Wick Poetry Program and edits the Wick Poetry Series through the Kent State University Press.
REVIEWS
“We are struck by the generosity of a voice that manages to bridge the gap between a personal and a world view, a balance that reveals a narrator who is of the world yet not overwhelmed by it.” —Prairie Schooner
“She is primarily a poet of moral urgency—a political poet as we say these days—but she is never shrill, relying on the tensions inherent in the natural world rather than rhetoric.”
—American Book Review
“The crux of Maggie Anderson’s poems is the strong narrative line, one accompanied by an abundance of lore based in the folkways of the people. And her energy is that very essence of the old stories and poetry—present in the talk of ordinary people.”
—Shelby Stephenson
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
To Carry All of Us
Country Wisdoms
Palimpsest
Related to the Sky
Cemetery, Saint Joseph's Settlement
With Wine
The Wash in My Grandmother's Arms
Gray
To Carry All of Us
What I'm Learning from Your Childhood
Belongings
As Close
Spitting in the Leaves
The Choices of Horses
Belongings
Independence Day, Terra Alta, West Virginia, 1935
Among Elms and Maples, Morgantown, West Virginia, August, 1935
Mining Camp Residents, West Virginia, July, 1935
Street Scene, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1935
House and Graveyard, Rowlesburg, West Virginia, 1935
Dream Vegetables
The Artist
To Draw Pictures
Exposure
Falling
Examination
Nightmare
Insomnia
Recurring
Flying
Nap Dreams
Sweet Resin
Art in America
In Singing Weather
Heart Fire
Small Citizens
The Only Jazz Bar in Salt Lake
In My Mother's House
The Thing You Must Remember
Far
A Small Pause Surrounded by the Weather
Before Winter
Heart Fire
Anything We Leave Forever
Civilization
Notes
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