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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1193769 in Books
• Published on: 1992-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From Library Journal
An Indiana native whose first publication came in 1941, Garrigue developed a poetic style that came to be known for its pulsating rhythms and romantic, symbolist motifs. The poems here were selected from her eight previously published collections. "The Circle," from her first collection, shows her eye for detail and her skill at conveying the lushness of nature: "The wood, swollen with mushrooms,/ Those rotting like excrement." As her poetry matured, her range grew to include the erotic: "The lover mirroring by his joy/ That flush beauty brings." In her prose poems, Garrigue's mellifluous voice carries the long lines, rippling along with a rich musicality. Selections from her highly praised Studies for an Actress and Other Poems ( LJ 2/1/73) include "The Grand Canyon," which some critics consider her finest poem, and range thematically from the autobiographical to a concern with pollution and the environment. Throughout, Garrigue's sureness of craft, firm voice, and wildness of imagination is evident, a testament to her poetic achievement. For most collections.
- Francis Poole, Univ. of Delaware Lib., Newark
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Review
Address To The Migrations
After Reading The Country Of The Pointed Firs
Again, Again
Amsterdam Letter
Attempting To Persuade You To Go For A Walk In The Public ..
Bad Times Song
Beaucaire
Beheld In Naples
Bleecker Street
The Brook
Catch What You Can
The Circle
A Civilization Constantly Worrying About Itself As It ...
The Clovers
Cortege For Colette
Country Villa
Cracked Looking Glass
A Demon Came To Me
Enemy Of Those Who Are Enemies Of Sleep
Epitaph For My Cat
False Country Of The Zoo
A Figure For J.v. Meer
The Flux Of Autumn
For J.
'for Such A Bird He Had No Convenient Cage'
For The Fountains And The Fountaineers Of Villa D'este: 1
For The Fountains And The Fountaineers Of Villa D'este: 2
For The Fountains And The Fountaineers Of Villa D'este: 3
Forest
Fro Anybody's Martyr's Song
From An Orchard Tree
From Venice Was That Afternoon
The Giralda
The Grand Canyon
Grave Piece
Grenoble Cafe
Grief Was To Go Out, Away
Homage To Ghosts
An Improvisation Upon The Theme Of The Lady And The Unicorn
In Memory
Incantatory Poem
Invitation To A Hay
Invocation To Old Windylocks
Iowa City Zoo
The Land We Did Not Know
Last Letter To The Scholar
Lead In The Water
The Maimed Grasshopper Speaks Up
The Mask And Knife
Moon Dial
Moralizing Overhead In A Forest
Motifs From The Dark Wood: 1
Motifs From The Dark Wood: 2
A Mourning: 1
A Mourning: 2
A Mourning: 3
The Mouse
Movie Actors Scribbling Letters Very Fast In Crucial Scenes
My Frantic Heart
A Note To La Fontaine
On Going By Train To White River Junction, Vt.
One For The Roses
Only The Irresistable Abides
Pays Perdu
Pays Perdu: 2
Pays Perdu: 3
Poem
Primer Of Plato
Rain Song
Requiem
Resistance Meeting: Boston Common
Shore
The Smoke Shop Owner's Daughter
Song
Song For Buvez Les Vins Du Postillon-advt
Song In Sligo
Spring Song Ii
The Stranger
The Strike Of The Night
Studies For An Actress: 1
Studies For An Actress: 2
Suite: Afterwards (july 15, 1964)
Suite: And The Platonic Order
Suite: Nota Bene
Suite: The Beginning
Suite: Your Words
There Is A Dark River
This Swallows' Empire
Thy Love Is One Thou'st Not Yet Known
To Speak Of My Influences
Waking, I Always Waked You Awake
Why The Heart Has Dreams Is Why The Mind Goes Mad
With Glazeof Tears
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®