Format:
Book
Title:
I praise my destroyer : poems / Diane Ackerman.
Author:
Ackerman, Diane, 1948-
Call Number:
811 A182i
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Random House, c1998.
Description:
ix, 114 p. ; 21 cm.
Subjects:
American poetry.
Contents:
School Prayer -- I Praise My Destroyer -- We Die -- Elegy -- Pyrrhic -- When the Deep Purple Falls -- Timed Talk -- Remodeling -- Boundaries -- The Sorrow Rangers -- Wildflowers -- Therapist -- Allies -- Where You Will Find Me -- By Atoms Moved -- The Summer Swims -- Autumn Laps -- Bluestockings -- A Herbal -- Transition -- Complaint on Her Cat -- Flying Over Martin's Ferry, Ohio -- Santa Anna's Surrender -- Williamsburg, Virginia -- Buying the Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis -- Natural Wonders -- Amber -- The Consolation of Apricots -- Underworld -- Eclipse -- Some Would Marry Winter -- Aviatrix -- Unrequited Poem -- You Will Think This a Dream -- Tender Mercies -- The Thief of Always -- Searching for the Comet -- Not Thinking of You -- San Francisco Sunrise -- Seasoning -- The Longing -- Return to Charlottesville -- Afterthought -- Lascaux -- On Location in the Loire Valley -- City of Dreams -- Pumping Iron -- Gramercy Park -- Hungarian Woman on Ellis Island -- Cantos Vaqueros.
ISBN:
0679771344 (pbk.)
0679448780