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Wife of Light
Mother --
New house --
Ode to an Appaloosa stallion --
Song of [symbol of pi] --
Critical mass --
Your future mistress --
Curtains of goldenrod --
Helen-Whitney's flat --
Where Paul was born --
Genethlion --
Lakebed --
Quixote --
Nightletter in semaphore --
Life sentence --
Menstruation rag --
Mystic communion of clocks --
Madame Bovary to her lover --
St. Augustine contemplating the bust of Einstein --
George Sand, addressing her mind, at 50 --
Anne Donne to her husband --
Sweep me through your many-chambered heart --
Tradescantia Fluminensis --
A.R. Ammons amid the fungi --
Ithaca, without you --
Driving through farm country at sunset --
Nox --
Digging holes --
Period piece --
I should have trekked with Scott to Antarctica. (Cont.) Trelawny Parish, Jamaica --
Mooning --
The bathroom curtain has a way of drooping --
Entreaty --
The elements --
Atlantic moonfish --
Of course the Earth won't stop --
Addendum --
Ode to the alien.
New house --
Ode to an Appaloosa stallion --
Song of [symbol of pi] --
Critical mass --
Your future mistress --
Curtains of goldenrod --
Helen-Whitney's flat --
Where Paul was born --
Genethlion --
Lakebed --
Quixote --
Nightletter in semaphore --
Life sentence --
Menstruation rag --
Mystic communion of clocks --
Madame Bovary to her lover --
St. Augustine contemplating the bust of Einstein --
George Sand, addressing her mind, at 50 --
Anne Donne to her husband --
Sweep me through your many-chambered heart --
Tradescantia Fluminensis --
A.R. Ammons amid the fungi --
Ithaca, without you --
Driving through farm country at sunset --
Nox --
Digging holes --
Period piece --
I should have trekked with Scott to Antarctica. (Cont.) Trelawny Parish, Jamaica --
Mooning --
The bathroom curtain has a way of drooping --
Entreaty --
The elements --
Atlantic moonfish --
Of course the Earth won't stop --
Addendum --
Ode to the alien.
- GenresPoetry
64 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
About the author
Diane Ackerman
72 books1,114 followersDiane Ackerman has been the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to many other awards and recognitions for her work, which include the bestsellers The Zookeeper’s Wife and A Natural History of the Senses.
The Zookeeper’s Wife, a little known true story of WWII, became a New York Times bestseller, and received the Orion Book Award, which honored it as, "a groundbreaking work of nonfiction." A movie of The Zookeeper’s Wife, starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Brühl, releases in theaters March 31st, 2017 from Focus Features.
She lives with her husband Paul West in Ithaca, New York.
The Zookeeper’s Wife, a little known true story of WWII, became a New York Times bestseller, and received the Orion Book Award, which honored it as, "a groundbreaking work of nonfiction." A movie of The Zookeeper’s Wife, starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Brühl, releases in theaters March 31st, 2017 from Focus Features.
She lives with her husband Paul West in Ithaca, New York.
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May 8, 2023
Another random find from the library!
Some of these poems I really enjoyed, like a sonnet about making love on a hilltop in curtains of goldenrod, and a few passionate poems about the moon. Others poems felt stuffy to me, or just didn't make me feel much. Ackerman has a real knack for describing things: reading a poem of hers can be like looking at a beautiful still-life or landscape painting. I just wish they'd come with some deeper insight or amazement for the beauty of those things, like the moon poems. I'm interested now to read her first poetry collection, "The Planets". Apparently one of her goals in that was to write about the beauty of the scientific world in the same way poets write about all the other aspects of nature. "Wife of Light" was more conventional fare.
Some of these poems I really enjoyed, like a sonnet about making love on a hilltop in curtains of goldenrod, and a few passionate poems about the moon. Others poems felt stuffy to me, or just didn't make me feel much. Ackerman has a real knack for describing things: reading a poem of hers can be like looking at a beautiful still-life or landscape painting. I just wish they'd come with some deeper insight or amazement for the beauty of those things, like the moon poems. I'm interested now to read her first poetry collection, "The Planets". Apparently one of her goals in that was to write about the beauty of the scientific world in the same way poets write about all the other aspects of nature. "Wife of Light" was more conventional fare.
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