Summers of Vietnam and Other Poems - Softcover

Kinzie, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0935296832 ISBN 13: 9780935296839

Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press, 1990

Synopsis

Poems deal with such topics as love, family, prison, God, and death

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6 x 9 trim. LC 89-4116

Review:

Kinzie's voice is that of a woman who has made her peace with the irrevocable changes that took place during her twenties. Kinzie's poems demand much of a reader - attention to detail and diction, appreciation of stanza forms and metrics, knowledge of art, history, and mythology - but their richly crafted texture invites, sustains, and rewards a careful reader. -- Choice

Mary Kinzie is a gifted poet with a flare for expression and the turn of a memorable phrase. Summers Of Vietnam is an anthology of 58 poetic gems well worth the browsing. For example, "Souls" -- The mist is everywhere, like cloth. /We watch a woman with a band/Of children go from house to house,/The daylight running out like sand. /As the last child dawdles out of sight,/A leaf against a blur of leaf,/The cold sinks forward from the west,/Upholding its hard mask of grief. /Then every view is huge with it:/An ancient pity settles back/In us, like an exotic drink/That makes it sweet so much to lack. /Forlorn together, we grow warm/With the exhaustion of the Task--/Never to look of clemency,/Never, above all else, to ask. -- Midwest Book Review

Masked Woman's Song
Accidie
Allegory
At Wentworth-by-the-sea
The Bamberger Reiter
The Betrothed
The Blue Wood
The Brief Against Pluralism
Chagall In His Sickness
The Chanticleer
The Charm
Dark Carol
Day Of Blood
Days Of Darkness
Diner
Down To Quantico
Dread
An Engraving Of Blake
Et Excrucior
Geometrical
Ghiberti's Eve
Glad Day
Grasshopper
Ground Zero: 1
Ground Zero: 2
Ground Zero: 3
Ground Zero: 4
A Guide To Fallen Country
Half Rations
The Human Face
Iseult Of Brittany
Knight And Death
Letter To Portsmouth Naval Prison
Looking Into Life
Meeting The Family
Melisande
Midwinter
Modern Love
The Muse Of Satire
Nereid's Song
Old Affair
Old Portsmouth
On The Actor Edward Petherbridge
Painting
The Palace Of Defectives
Parting Inscription
Plague Summer
The Pregnant Son
The Proviso
Reading An Old Poem Of Mine
Requiem: All Souls'
Requiem: Christmas
Requiem: Easter
Requiem: St. John's Day
Ringing Words
The Same Love
The Shed
Shuttle And Thorn
Small Birthday Poem
Souls
Storm Pictures
Stundenbuch
Summers Of Vietnam
Superbia
Those Who Will Not Come
To God Who Gets Away With Things
The Voice
Vulcan
When We Turned Our Backs On It, The Ocean
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0935296832
• ISBN 13: 9780935296839
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 154