Song of the world becoming : new and collected poems, 1981-2001 /
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| Author / Creator: | Rogers, Pattiann, 1940- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2001. |
| Description: | xxiii, 518 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4530823 |
Table of Contents:
- The Natural Nature of Late Night Prayers
- Trial and Error
- God Alone
- Another Little God
- Life in an Expanding Universe
- Creating Transfiguration
- The Fancy of Free Will
- For Any Known Fact: Nude Walking Alone on a Beach in Moonlight
- The Image in a World of Flux
- The All-Encompassing
- The Singing Place
- Opus from Space
- The Fallacy of Thinking Flesh Is Flesh
- Where Do Your People Come From?
- Orange Thicket: To Speak in Tongues
- Murder in the Good Land
- Nearing Autobiography
- Of Possibility: Another Autumn Leaving
- Creation by the Presence of Absence: City Coyote in Rain
- The Death of Living Rocks and the Consequences Thereof
- The Consequences of Death
- Against the Ethereal
- Service with Benediction
- The Art of Raising Gibbons and Flowers
- Partners
- Kissing a Kit Fox
- Kaleidoscope: Free Will and the Nature of the Holy Spirit
- Inside the Universe Inside the Act
- The Center of the Known Universe
- Place and Proximity
- The Kingdom of Heaven
- Fractal: Repetition of Form over a Variety of Scales
- Within One Moment, All Possible Moments
- Remembering the Present Tense
- The Immortal Soul
- Abundance and Satisfaction
- "God Is in the Details," Says Mathematician Freeman J. Dyson
- Mousefeet: From a Lecture on Muridae Cosmology
- Rapture of the Deep: The Pattern of Poseidon's Love Song
- Going for Water and Light
- Into the Light
- The Eye Has No Will of Its Own
- Cause and Effect, Far and Aware
- Design of Gongs
- The Long Marriage: A Translation
- Creation, by Season, of the Very First Desire
- Investigative Logic in a Study of Love
- The Way I'm Taught by Heart
- Egg.
- A Very Common Field
- Being Specific
- Reiteration
- The Nature of the Huckster
- Born on Noah's Ark
- Eyes and the Sea
- On the Way to Early Morning Mass
- these horses never cease
- Believing in Blood
- Speaking of Evolution: Luminosity
- Data from This Line of Light Laboratory
- As Even Ever
- Peace All Seasons, Each Night
- The Making of the World
- Born of a Rib
- Veneration
- The Funniest Clown
- Afterward
- Paganini, and Rumor As Genesis
- The Blessings of Ashes and Dust
- The Composer, The Bone Yard
- Fossil Texts on Canyon Walls
- Variations on Breaking the Faith of Sleep
- Stone Bird
- Disunion: Moonless Hound Monologue
- Millennium Map of the Universe (from the National Geographic Society)
- The Stars Beneath My Feet
- Just to Say It
- The Known Unknown
- The Form of That Which Is Sought
- Self-Recognition of the Observer As Momentary Cessation of Process
- Archetype
- Verges
- Once Upon a Time, When I Was Almost Dead with Fear and Doubt
- Almanac
- Song of the Oceans of the World Becoming
- Watching the Ancestral Prayers of Venerable Others
- Before the Beginning: Maybe God and a Silk Flower Concubine Perhaps
- In Order to Be
- The Background Beyond the Background
- In Order to Perceive
- Containment
- Dwarf
- Old Women
- Second-Story Ballroom
- The Reincarnated
- Suppose Your Father Was a Redbird
- Without Violence
- Coming of Age
- For Stephen Drawing Birds
- Struck Seven Times
- Watching Dreams
- The Caretakers
- The Rites of Passage
- How to Stay Safe in the City
- How You Came
- The Question of Affection
- Being Defined
- Seduced by Ear Alone
- Hearing the Unexpected
- The First Norther
- Achieving Perspective
- On Your Imminent Departure: Considering the Relative Importance of Various Motions
- Trying Magic
- Hiring the Man Who Builds Fires for a Living
- Crocodile God
- The Viewpoint of the Unbelievable
- How the Moon Becomes Itself
- Illumination
- The Brain Creates Itself
- How the Body in Motion Affects the Mind
- The Man Hidden Behind the Drapes
- How the Field, Without Being Touched, Can Be Altered
- The Zoo: How the Captured Animal Maintains His Power
- Concepts and Their Bodies (The Boy in the Field Alone)
- What the Body Means to Belief
- An Act of Conviction
- Handling Despair
- Determining Location
- The Determinations of the Scene
- Being of This State
- Supposition
- How the Scene Influences Occasions
- The Success of the Hunt
- A Giant Has Swallowed the Earth
- The Significance of Location
- Counting What the Cactus Contains
- Making a History
- Finding the Fire Line
- Portrait
- Seeing the Glory
- On the Existence of the Soul
- Synthesizing the Word
- The Literary Man
- By Hearing the Some Story Over and Over
- All the Elements of the Scene
- That Song
- The Literary Adventure
- NASA Takes a 63-Year-Old Poet to the First Space Station
- The Fear of Falling
- Capturing the Scene
- The Pieces of Heaven
- Angel of the Atom
- Second Witness
- Maintaining the Indistinguishable
- The Doctrine
- The Faulty Realization of the Hoary Puccoon
- Duality
- Her Delight
- Raising the Eyes That High
- Love Song
- The Hummingbird: A Seduction
- The Power of Toads
- Betrayal: The Reflection of the Cattail
- At the Break of Spring
- The Possible Salvation of Continuous Motion
- The Delight of Being Lost
- An Experiment of Faith
- A Daydream of Light
- The Definition of Time
- The Possible Suffering of a God during Creation
- The Possible Advantages of the Expendable Multitudes
- The Verification of Vulnerability: Bog Turtle
- The Limitations of Death
- Justification of the Horned Lizard
- Eulogy for a Hermit Crab
- Trinity
- The Art of Becoming
- The God of Ornithology
- The Creation of the Inaudible
- Transformation
- Filling In Spaces
- Exposing the Future with Conviction
- Lineage
- Intermediary
- If a Son Asks
- The Birth Song and the Death Song
- Little Fugue
- Parlor Game on a Snowy Winter Night
- Observing the Questions of a Grey Sky
- Finding the Tattooed Lady in the Garden
- The Compassion of the Iris
- Reaching the Audience
- Discovering Your Subject
- "The Tree Has Captured My Soul"
- First Notes from One Born and Living in an Abandoned Barn
- The Form of the Message
- The Tongues of Angels
- Being Accomplished
- Inside God's Eye
- After Dinner
- A Fortnight to Remember
- Aspects of Unity
- Naked Boys on Naked Ponies
- The Witness of Death
- The Well-Wisher from Halfway Around the World
- The Documentation of Absence
- A Seasonal Tradition
- Being Remembered
- A Modicum of Decorum
- The Mirror of Pierrot
- The Study of the Splinter Expert
- The Shape of Sorrow
- The Clockmaker and the Toymaker Are Friends
- Locating the Source of Intention
- The Mystery of Union
- Gentlemen of Leisure
- The Effort to Eliminate Ignorance: Birdwatching
- Seminar
- The Pursuit As Solution
- Entomological Research
- The Love of Enchantment: Felicia Was Kissed in the Garden Last Night
- How the Whale Forgets the Love of Felicia
- The Structure of Sustenance
- The Facts of the Earth
- The Myth: Raison d'Etre
- The Accounting
- The Evolution of Freedom
- The Revelation of the Willed Hallucination
- The Creation of Sin
- One in Three
- Albert, Standing in the Forest at Night, Asks Himself, "Where Did I Come From?"
- The Truth of the Matter
- Sight and Sound
- The Next Story
- The Dead Never Fight Against Anything
- White Prayer
- The Voice of the Precambrian Sea
- The Origin of Order
- The Favorite Dance of the Deaf and Blind Beggar
- The Sense God Gave
- The Answering of Prayers
- The Importance of the Whale in the Field of Iris
- For the Wren Trapped in a Cathedral
- The Grooming
- There Is a Way to Walk on Water
- The Light Inside of Death
- The Nature of Winter
- Like God
- Knot
- The Family Is All There Is
- The Revolution of the Somersault
- Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew
- When at Night
- For Passions Denied: Pineywoods Lily
- The Eyes of the Gardener in the Villa of the Blind
- What the Sun God Saw One Summer Afternoon
- When You Watch Us Sleeping
- The Objects of Immortality
- On Being Eaten Alive
- Before I Wake
- A Common Sight
- Fellfield
- Approaching the Metropolis
- In Addition to Faith, Hope, and Charity
- A Voice Speaks in Earnest, but Nobody Listens
- A Passing
- That's Why
- Geocentric
- My Children (An Old God Remembers)
- What the Sea Means to a Rock Barnacle in a Tidal Pool
- Teaching a Sea Turtle Suddenly Given the Power of Language, I Begin by Saying
- Sea Dragon Fish in His Garden/Chu Chung Li, 91st Birthday Anniversary
- Life and Death: All the Lost Accordions and Concertinas
- Immemorial
- Diving for Gold: The Bottom of the World
- Amen
- Good Heavens
- Elinor Frost's Marble-Topped Kneading Table
- Snow Thinking
- Carrying on the Tradition, or, The Man in the Moon Brings His Daughter for Lessons in Marble Sculpting
- Selene's Generosity
- Why Lost Divinity Remains Lost
- Distance and Depth
- By Death
- To Complete a Thought
- Three's Charm
- Under the Big Top
- The Year All the Clowns Were Executed
- Get On Board
- The Mad Linguist
- The Process
- The Greatest Grandeur
- Till My Teeth Rattle
- In My Time
- The Need to Adore
- Emissaries
- If Dying Means Becoming Pure Spirit
- The Laying On of Hands
- Eating Death
- Berry Renaissance
- Apple Disciples
- Still Life Abroad
- Foreplay
- The Power of Sun
- Are Some Sins Hosannas?
- This Kind of Grace
- Fetal Bat: The Creation of the Void
- Infanticide
- Goddamn Theology
