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The quick / Katrina Roberts.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pacific Northwest poetry seriesPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, �2005Description: 1 online resource (107 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295806921
  • 0295806923
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Quick.DDC classification:
  • 811/.54 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3568.O23875 Q53 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Review: "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.
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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.

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