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The quick /

Roberts, Katrina.

The quick / Katrina Roberts. - 1 online resource (107 pages) - The Pacific Northwest poetry series . - Pacific Northwest poetry series. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Estuary -- Self-portrait as flint, dust, an egg-blue truck, memory of arson & signs -- On wanting a child -- Sfumato -- Bright cell -- Scintilla -- Dizzy with the glow of what might dehisce -- Dryope to Amphissos -- Diplopia -- Woman holding a balance -- Auralia -- Coda -- Malleus, Incus, Stapes -- Missive -- Furculae -- One or two things sacred to sorrow -- Marina -- Captive of the mineral world -- Residuum -- University -- Peepwillow -- Cynosure -- Signs of life -- Anima -- Plumed wings, apposing thumbs & other household mutations -- Midwinter -- Saturnism -- Omphalocele -- Anamnesis -- Bird of consequence -- Occurrence -- News -- Ceridwen to Taliesin -- Cantata -- Bread -- Firstborn.

"The Quick is a book of essences. Katrina Roberts's poetry is at once celebratory and elegiac, lyric and narrative, striving to divine what's at the quick of this fleeting existence we share. Anchored in many ways by the long poem "Cantata," which chronicles her pregnancy and the birth of her son, the book turns and turns its kaleidoscopic lens, settling now on origins and creation myths, now on Greek or Welsh gods, now on a painting by Vermeer or on an article from the daily news, all slipping together to illuminate our coming to consciousness, our coming to "be.""--Jacket.


English.

9780295806921 0295806923

22573/ctvctc4nn JSTOR


2000-2099


American poetry--21st century.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
American poetry.
American Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

PS3568.O23875 / Q53 2005eb

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