Days of Awe - Softcover

Simon, Maurya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556590237 ISBN 13: 9781556590238

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 1989

Synopsis

"Simon...rarely falters in the subtle music of her lines, the justness of her metaphors and the integrity of her praise."--Publishers Weekly

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Review:

The Abandoned Church
Angle Of Repose
Anniversary Sonnet
At Mudumalai
At Seventeen
Atomic Psalm
Boy Crazy
Breakwater
Clothes That Wear Me
Commander-in-chief Road
Contusion
Days Of Awe
Death's Earned No Diplomas
Dedication
The Doves Of Pliny
Dream Babies
The Elevator
Encounter
For Naomi
The Future
Gallows
The Gardener
Icarus In The Twentieth Century
In The Shtetl
In The Valley Of Ether
The Inheritance
King Midas's Daughter
Les Fleurs Du Printemps
Madras Lament
Nude Mice
The Palmist
The Pharaohs
The Poem At The End Of The World
The Rabbi's Trousers, Circa 1900
Rothko's Black
The Sadness Of Rivers
Sunday
The Surreal Man
Survival
Tale Before The End Of The World
Theme Variations
Vermeer's Women
The White Cockroach
The Years
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Library Journal:

Simon's poems do what her title suggests--they offer grateful testimony for choice moments of beholding. In "Dedication" she writes, "you gave me first what I didn't have: another self to love/unconditionally, and to forgive." In poems that one may prize more for their accessibility than their flat lines, one is struck by the courage of her ideas. Though adventures from her girlhood are recurrent--"I used to watch the roses loosen/ their pink wigs as I clocked the rain"--the poems that stand a little outside the poet offer an invitation different from biography. Simon tells her version of Icarus, the doves of Pliny, the pharaohs, and the nude mice of the Hungarian poet/doctor Miroslav Holub. Steady and positive, these poems won't knock your socks off, but they stay with the concrete and deliver a positive, youthful message about some return of "dark hope in
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About this edition

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 1556590237
• ISBN 13: 9781556590238
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 88