University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994 Paper: 978-0-8229-5502-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-8085-8 Library of Congress Classification PS3568.O7874C45 1993 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
A book of poems about “children” in the widest sense--from children of the Nazi-torn Warsaw ghettos to the American poor, as well as poems of domesticity, love, and daily life.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Liz Rosenberg is associate professor of English at State University of New York - Binghamton University. Her poetry has been widely published and she is currently writing a column for the Boston Globe. Rosenberg is the winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Prize, Paterson Prize, and Books of Distinction Award.
REVIEWS
“Rosenberg has the gift of connection, the ability to enter into an empathetic contract with the blind child, the impoverished workman, the alienated teenager, the elderly cardiac patient her unborn child—and to deal with this material impressively.”
—Maxine Kumin
"Liz Rosenberg is clearly a poet of great distinction in her generation. . . . She has a great compassion, an articulate and resourceful control, a very active center in the contemporary world's disposition and complex occassion. I am moved indeed by what she has to say."
—Robert Creeley
"At first glance, this is a collection of tragic loss. Perhaps first suggested by the book's striking cover, the death motif is powerful and direct. . . . Yet, upon closer reading, these are 'love poems scrawled, scratched out,/blotted with tears.' These are pieces that confront reality, that address the power of love that transcends all physical limitations and reason."
—Kliatt
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
One
Where Were You?
Susquehanna
Wild World
The Blue-Flowered Bell
Because I Was Dying
In the Country of Dreamers
Bathtime
College Days
A Lesson in Anatomy
Be the One
Since Only Desire Is Infinite
The New Life
Pregnancy, First Trimester
The Noble Corpse
The Newborns
All Those Hours Alone in the Dark
The Dark Side
The Terrible Ones
Intensive Care Unit
Darkness with Flashes of Light
Admiring the Enemy
Pentimento
Third First Snow
The Poem of My Heart
Two
After the Death of a Neighbor's Child
The Little Red Shoe
The Suffering
Dark Eyes
Ecco Homo
The Recitation
Fairy Tales
The Method
The First Child Martyr at Illinois Elementary
The Black Shoe
The Birthday Party
The Silence of Women
Fireworks
My Husband Takes a Photograph of Me
If Love Is Like the Rain
The Plum Seed
The Wedding
New Days
A Vanished World
Van Gogh's Potato Eaters
The Crucified
The Dalai Lama
Charity
The Details
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994 Paper: 978-0-8229-5502-3 eISBN: 978-0-8229-8085-8
A book of poems about “children” in the widest sense--from children of the Nazi-torn Warsaw ghettos to the American poor, as well as poems of domesticity, love, and daily life.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Liz Rosenberg is associate professor of English at State University of New York - Binghamton University. Her poetry has been widely published and she is currently writing a column for the Boston Globe. Rosenberg is the winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Prize, Paterson Prize, and Books of Distinction Award.
REVIEWS
“Rosenberg has the gift of connection, the ability to enter into an empathetic contract with the blind child, the impoverished workman, the alienated teenager, the elderly cardiac patient her unborn child—and to deal with this material impressively.”
—Maxine Kumin
"Liz Rosenberg is clearly a poet of great distinction in her generation. . . . She has a great compassion, an articulate and resourceful control, a very active center in the contemporary world's disposition and complex occassion. I am moved indeed by what she has to say."
—Robert Creeley
"At first glance, this is a collection of tragic loss. Perhaps first suggested by the book's striking cover, the death motif is powerful and direct. . . . Yet, upon closer reading, these are 'love poems scrawled, scratched out,/blotted with tears.' These are pieces that confront reality, that address the power of love that transcends all physical limitations and reason."
—Kliatt
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
One
Where Were You?
Susquehanna
Wild World
The Blue-Flowered Bell
Because I Was Dying
In the Country of Dreamers
Bathtime
College Days
A Lesson in Anatomy
Be the One
Since Only Desire Is Infinite
The New Life
Pregnancy, First Trimester
The Noble Corpse
The Newborns
All Those Hours Alone in the Dark
The Dark Side
The Terrible Ones
Intensive Care Unit
Darkness with Flashes of Light
Admiring the Enemy
Pentimento
Third First Snow
The Poem of My Heart
Two
After the Death of a Neighbor's Child
The Little Red Shoe
The Suffering
Dark Eyes
Ecco Homo
The Recitation
Fairy Tales
The Method
The First Child Martyr at Illinois Elementary
The Black Shoe
The Birthday Party
The Silence of Women
Fireworks
My Husband Takes a Photograph of Me
If Love Is Like the Rain
The Plum Seed
The Wedding
New Days
A Vanished World
Van Gogh's Potato Eaters
The Crucified
The Dalai Lama
Charity
The Details
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