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Title
Fidelity / Grace Paley.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780374299064 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0374299064 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0374299064 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Description
ix, 83 p. ; 22 cm.
Exhibited
2008 Poets House Showcase
Call Number
PS3566.A46 F53 2008
Summary
Just before her death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Grace Paley completed this wise and poignant book of poems. Full of memories of friends and family and incisive observations of life in both her beloved hometown, New York City, and rural Vermont, the poems are sober and playful, experimenting with form while remaining eminently readable. They explore the beginnings and ends of relationships, the ties that bind siblings, the workings of dreams, the surreal strangeness of the aging body--all imbued with her unique perspective and voice. Mournful and nostalgic, but also ruefully funny and full of love, Fidelity is Grace Paley's passionate and haunting elegy for the life she was leaving behind. -- Publisher's description.
Formatted Contents Note
Proverbs
Anti-love poem
On occasion
Fathers
why shouldn't men look at women
I Met a Woman on the Plane
you can't think without thinking about something
Then
freedom has overtaken me
before I was nobody
new york city man is
Thank God there is no God
Hard-hearted rich
Their Honest Purpose Mocked
What a terrible racket they made
She said
Life is as risky
Birth of a Child
Sometimes now when I sleep alone
I Met a Seducer
Having Dinner
Occasional Speech at the Interfaith Thanksgiving gathering
It doesn't matter i
To the Vermont Arts Council on iIts fortieth birthday
very little girl looked at her grandfather
My sister and my grandson
Fidelity
I invited
my lungs
News
Who
Bravery on Tenth Street
Many
I needed to talk to my sister
Suddenly there's Poughkeepsie
Cloud like a tower
I went out walking
some things are not
Night morning
my heart leaps up when I behold
On the park bench
Irish poet
Telling
All the old women came out in the sun
Detour
I had thought the tumors
One day
Windows
Here we are now
Even
Sisters
Mabel
Education
Let the day go
This hill.
Anti-love poem
On occasion
Fathers
why shouldn't men look at women
I Met a Woman on the Plane
you can't think without thinking about something
Then
freedom has overtaken me
before I was nobody
new york city man is
Thank God there is no God
Hard-hearted rich
Their Honest Purpose Mocked
What a terrible racket they made
She said
Life is as risky
Birth of a Child
Sometimes now when I sleep alone
I Met a Seducer
Having Dinner
Occasional Speech at the Interfaith Thanksgiving gathering
It doesn't matter i
To the Vermont Arts Council on iIts fortieth birthday
very little girl looked at her grandfather
My sister and my grandson
Fidelity
I invited
my lungs
News
Who
Bravery on Tenth Street
Many
I needed to talk to my sister
Suddenly there's Poughkeepsie
Cloud like a tower
I went out walking
some things are not
Night morning
my heart leaps up when I behold
On the park bench
Irish poet
Telling
All the old women came out in the sun
Detour
I had thought the tumors
One day
Windows
Here we are now
Even
Sisters
Mabel
Education
Let the day go
This hill.
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