The Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed - Hardcover

Cooper, Jane; Cooper

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9780393047776: The Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393047776 ISBN 13: 9780393047776

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1999

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Former New York State Poet Jane Cooper brings together work from four earlier books, along with eighteen previously unpublished poems. In a voice of unusual integrity Jane Cooper traces the arc of a life, from poems written out of the shadow of World War II, to haunting personal elegies, to poems that, with no loss of intimacy, engage history with passion and subtlety. Here are poems of love, loss, friendship, concern for the lives of women, the humor and "complex shame" of a white Southern heritage, the mysteries of art.

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About the Author:

Jane Cooper is the recipient of numerous awards including the Lamont Award, the Shelley Award, the Maurice English Award, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. She is also the author of Green Notebook, Winter Road, and Scaffolding: Selected Poems. She lives in New York City.

Review:

A fierce clarity runs through this valuable gathering of work from Jane Cooper's entire career. Honest, tranquil, uneasy, courageous - Cooper's poetry holds these oppositions in strenuous poise. -- Rachel Haddas

A passionate commitment to the imagination . . . a continuing inner growth--these qualities have long drawn me to Jane Cooper's work. -- Adrienne Rich

Cemerety In Pernambuco (our Lady Of The Night)
95 Degrees
Acceptances 3.the Racetrack
Acceptances 1. The Sundial
Acceptances 2. The Graveyard
After The Blackout (1965)
After The Bomb Tests
All The Leaves Were Green
All These Dreams
A Bedside Rune
Being Southern
Bermuda
Blind Girl
Bloodroot
The Blue Anchor
The Builder Of Houses
The Calling
Childhood In Jacksonville, Florida
The Children's Ward
A Circle, A Square, A Triangle And A Ripple Of Water
Class
Clementene
Conversation By The Body's Light
Dispossessions: 1. Things
Dispossessions: 2. Souvenirs
Dispossessions: 3. Inheritances
The Door
Dream In Which The Routine Quality Of My Imagination If Fully Exposed
The Earthquake
Estrangement
Eve
Evening Star (georgia O'keeffe)
The Faithful
The Figure On The Far Side
The Flashboat
For A Boy Born In Wartime
For A Very Old Man, On The Death Of His Wife
For My Mother In Her First Illness, From A Window Overlooking Notre Da
For The Recorder Of Suicides
For Thomas Hardy
From The Journal Concerning My Father
Gaza
The Green Notebook
The Hobby Lobby
Holding Out
Hotel De Dream
How Can I Speak For Her?
In A Room With Picassos
In The House Of The Dying
In The Last Few Moments Came The Old German Cleaning Woman
The Infusion Room
Iron
Jittoku, Buddhist Mystic--15th Century
The Knowledge That Comes Through Experience
Leaving Water Hyacinths
Letters
A Little Vesper
Long View From The Suburbs
Long, Disconsolate Lines
March 1. Feathers
March 2.hunger Moon
March 4.back
March 5.no More Elegies
March 6.in Silence Where We Breathe
March 7.middle Age
March 8.coda
March: 3. El Sueno De La Razon
Mary Coldwell
Messages
Meteors
A Mission With The Night
Morning On The St. John's
Mourning Picture
My Friend
My Mother In Three Acts
My Young Mother
A Nightmare Of The Suburbs
Nothing I Meant To Keep
Obligations
Olympic Rain Forest
Ordinary Detail
P.o.w.
The Past
Pencil Sketch Of Self & Other
A Poem With Capital Letters
Poetry As Continuity
Practicing For Death
Praise
Rent
The River In All Lights, From An Upstairs Window
Rock Climbing
Roman Dream
S.eliason66:double Portrait Of Emily Dickinson And The Rev.charles Wad
Scattered Words For Emily Dickinson
Seventeen Questions About King Kong
Snow In The City
Song
Starting With A Line From Roethke
Suicide Note
These High White Walls
Threads: Rosa Luxemburg From Prison: 1. Wronke, Spring 1917
Threads: Rosa Luxemburg From Prison: 2. Breslau, November-dec. 1917
Threads: Rosa Luxemburg From Prison: 3. Breslau, Spring 1918
Twins
The Urge To Tell The Truth
Vocation: A Life 1.desire
Vocation: A Life 2. Romance
Vocation: A Life 3.possession
Vocation: A Life 4. Unfurnishing
Waiting
Wanda's Blues
The Weather Of Six Mornings
What The Seer Said
The Winter Road
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

I love all of her: from her controlled early lyrics in "The Weather of Six Mornings," to her generous, inspiring essay "Nothing Has Been Used in the Manufacture of this Poetry that Could Have Been Used in the Manufacture of Bread," to her longer, more digressive meditations. Her technical range is breathtaking, her humanity and womanist goodness shine like a beacon in our increasingly cynical world. I am thrilled that finally Jane Cooper's hard work has been "reclaimed." "The Flashboat" will save your life. -- Marilyn Chin

Long before many of us were reading or writing poetry, Jane Cooper was recording what it was like to be a soul on this Earth. She has walked through the second half of the twentieth century as through a burning forest: alert, fierce, careful, accurate, determined to survive. These poems are the poems of a woman deeply awake to the world within her and outside her - they are a record of one American life, a woman's life, a thinking heart. I can't imagine the world without them. -- Marie Howe

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