Book

Domestic Violence : Poems.

Summary:

"The poems in Domestic violence are about the charged spaces in which people live, about interiors where seductions, quarrels, memories, and griefs occur, and about the mysteries that lie within poetry itself."

Record details

ISBN: 9780393333084
ISBN: 0393333086
Physical Description: 79 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : W W Norton & Co Inc, 2008.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Domestic Violence -- How the Dance Came to the City -- How it Was Once in Our Country -- Still Life -- Silenced -- Histories -- Wisdom -- Irish Interior -- In Our Own Country -- Amber -- An Elegy for my Mother in Which She Scarcely Appears -- And Soul -- Secrets -- On This Earth -- Inheritance -- Traveler -- Windfall -- Letters to the Dead -- To Memory -- Of Shadow, Of Simile -- Indoors -- In Season -- The Room in Which My First Child Slept -- Midnight on the Sixth Day -- Neighbors -- Falling Asleep to the Sound of Rain -- Atlantis-A Lost Sonnet -- Becoming the Hand of John Speed -- Papers -- Formation -- On Seeing James Malton's Powerscourt-House, Dublin 1795 -- The Nineteenth-Century Irish Poets -- The Origins of Our Native Speech -- Violence Against Women -- Instructions -- In Coming Days --