For lack of a dictionary : poems / Rosalind Morris.
2025
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Title
For lack of a dictionary : poems / Rosalind Morris.
Author
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781531509736 paperback
1531509738 paperback
1531509738 paperback
Published
New York : Fordham University Press, 2025.
Copyright
©2025
Language
English
Description
77 pages ; 22 cm
Exhibited
2024-2025 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1511444230
Summary
"In this debut collection, renowned scholar Rosalind Morris spans the lyrical landscapes of personal experience and global political dilemmas. Organized into four distinct sections, each featuring seven poems that vary in style and content, For Lack of a Dictionary reflects the diverse facets of human complexity and the struggle to find a language capable of addressing them. Beginning with a mythopoetic exploration of the self and progressing through varied voices and forms--from the epistolary and the erotic to the elegiac--the collection navigates the absences and presences that shape our interpersonal connections. From Homer's Iliad to Hobbes's Leviathan, and from the intimate letters of the Rosenbergs to the television broadcasts of lunar landings, Morris revisits epic figures of classical literature with a contemporary voice, concluding with poignant reflections on personal loss and the seductive allure of magical thinking in times of grief"-- Provided by publisher.
Formatted Contents Note
If I am. If I am six
If I am seven
Ten in the library
Eleven: grammar lessons
Befindlichkeit
The new girl
Patty Hearst pays a visit
Everyone burns their witches. Fear and I are twins
Huntsville, TX
If in a tomb
Letter to the front in a time of AIDS
Late night news
Here and there
Blue
Ways of seeing. Dreaming Eden
Eyeless in summer
K, accountant
Blackest above the abbatoir
Varorium on Emily Dickinson's bluebird
The astronaut in isolation
Ways of seeing (a memory of Italy)
Something gets planted. The moons of fifty
Transit of Mercury
Reading Dante in St. John the Divine Cathedral
Hudson River rhapsody
Latenight, called by you
Sappho's foot
Something gets planted.
If I am seven
Ten in the library
Eleven: grammar lessons
Befindlichkeit
The new girl
Patty Hearst pays a visit
Everyone burns their witches. Fear and I are twins
Huntsville, TX
If in a tomb
Letter to the front in a time of AIDS
Late night news
Here and there
Blue
Ways of seeing. Dreaming Eden
Eyeless in summer
K, accountant
Blackest above the abbatoir
Varorium on Emily Dickinson's bluebird
The astronaut in isolation
Ways of seeing (a memory of Italy)
Something gets planted. The moons of fifty
Transit of Mercury
Reading Dante in St. John the Divine Cathedral
Hudson River rhapsody
Latenight, called by you
Sappho's foot
Something gets planted.
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