Displaying 1 of 1 2009 Format: Book Author: Cooley, Peter, 1940- Title: Divine margins / poems by Peter Cooley. Publisher, Date: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Carnegie Mellon Univ Press, [2009] ©2009 Description: 71 pages ; 22 cm Subjects: American poetry -- 21st century. LCCN: 2008923984 ISBN: 9780887484940 0887484948 Other Number: 310400785 System Availability: 2 # System items in: 2 # Local items: 2 # Local items in: 2 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Large Cover Image Summary In another book of mystic explorations, Cooley mines the decline and passing of his parents' lives for insights into a Spirit that dwells beyond us, beside us and in us, the poet guided by "the grace light possible to sustain me." Drawing from received texts in Christian myth for iconic figures he can re-shape as his own, Cooley tries once again to find miracle, even ironic miracle, in the ordinary. Table of Contents 1TelevisionTriptych: Center Panel Always Still UnfinishedThe RaptureLittle Quartet for My FatherBlue RingLittle Quartet for My MotherFirst Birthday Letter to the DeadSecond Birthday Letter to the Dead *Underwear; My Conception; The Salvation ArmyFor My Dead Father on Father's DayLetters from the DeadThe Place of an Aubade2Writing Toward the Resurrection of Christ's Body at the Beginning of the Third MillenniumAmong Clerks and CustomersDeath of the AuthorIntroduction to Art HistoryFailed SonnetAnother of My Poems about the BodyDiptych *Emmaus MorningsFirst Light MeditationAll My Tests NegativeThe Annunciation3Naming-the-Animals-Moments4ProemProem Two: Almost Posthumous PoemProem Three: All My Poems Are AubadesAzaleasTo My Mother and FatherThe WatchersThe One Certain ThingAdam NamingAfterwordsMuseum of the MomentThe Leaves; The Animals; The Sky UnseenTo the Morning TreesCorrespondencesTo a Departed Savior Librarian's View Syndetics Unbound Displaying 1 of 1
