Format:
Book
Title:
Half wild : poems / Mary Rose O'reilley.
Author:
O'Reilley, Mary Rose.
Call Number:
811 OReilley
Web Site:
Publisher, Date:
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.
Description:
62 p. ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Poetry -- Women authors.
Genre:
Poetry.
Contents:
Twin -- Scene of the crime photos -- The girl they caught -- The dead -- Bluebeard's wife -- Sister Joanna washes the floor -- Drifting -- Flamenco dancer -- The lost child -- L'Enfant sauvage -- Miscarried -- Ritual -- My daughter interrupts the fairy tale -- Persephone -- As one leaving -- Separating the eggs -- The distaff -- Abandoned farmhouse -- The gods keep descending -- Icon -- The circus dog -- Variation on an ancient text -- Memory -- Grotte du Grand Roc -- Clearing land for the lotus pool -- The Zen master's instructions -- Sweeping the Zendo -- Home farm -- Before spring -- Snowblind -- We keep asking the prairie -- Durham -- When I imagine my soul -- Bees in autumn -- Hasidic bride -- Portrait of Madame Monet on her deathbed -- Passover -- Boreal owl -- Tundra swan -- Field guide to north shore geology -- North coast -- It began -- The crossing -- Open all night -- Driving west -- Green herons -- Scholar's garden -- Infinite day -- Seascape -- Speaking in tongues -- The deer's prayer -- Two biker chicks -- It's not safe at all -- Call it a match -- Autobiography -- The visit -- The lives of the cousins -- The foster child -- Shin Ohashe bridge.
ISBN:
9780807131626 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807131628 (pbk. : alk. paper)