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Even the dark : poems / by Leslie Williams

Author
Williams, Leslie, 1967-
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
Published
Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Physical Description
x, 66 pages ; 23 cm.

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Elm -- The Great Mirror -- Thinking of God's Goodness While the Ten-Year-Old Neighbor Is Suffering -- The Youngest Ocean -- When Walking by Lilacs, a Burning Smell -- So Many Days Are Beauties -- Trammeled Gaze across the Street -- Fox in the Yard -- Latterly -- Safe in the Ground -- Don't Worry -- Come Make Your Coracle -- The Girl in Us -- In Which the Bread Crumbs Were Eaten by Birds -- The Forest -- Sprigged Muslin of the Heartbreak Voice -- Exile from the Kingdom of Ordinary Sight -- Bread of Heaven -- She Visits Me -- Present -- Taking Orders -- Forgetful Green -- Come Here Weather of Love and Let Me Look at You -- Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God -- Bluebird of Happiness® -- Land-and-Sea -- Bird Pushed Out of Nest on Top of the Garage -- I Have Let Things Slip -- Cortege -- Brought in Safety to This New Day -- Last Night's Air Kisses -- Apostasy, Failed -- Magpies in Aspens -- In the Second Half of Life -- Even the Gladioli -- Furlough -- When I Was Alone -- The One Trumpet Lily Speaks -- Dog Days -- Prayer That Starts in the Eye of a Bird -- Self-Portrait with American Crows.
Summary
"The poems in this collection grapple with suicide and mortal illness and attempt to hold helplessness and despair up to the light of faith"--
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ISBN
9780809337491 (paperback)
0809337495 (paperback)
9780809337507 electronic book
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