Wade in the water : poems

Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, using her signature voice--inquisitive, lyrical and wry--mulls over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence, boldly tying America's modern moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.

Record details

ISBN: 9781555978136
ISBN: 1555978134
Physical Description: print
83 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-81).

Formatted Contents Note:

Garden of Eden -- The angels -- Hill country -- Deadly -- A man's world -- The world is your beautiful younger sister -- ǂt Realm of shades -- ǂt Driving to Ottawa -- ǂt Wade in the water -- ǂt Declaration -- ǂt The greatest personal privation -- ǂt Unwritten -- ǂt I will tell you the truth about this, I will tell you all about it -- ǂt Ghazal -- ǂt The United States welcomes you -- ǂt New road station -- ǂt Theatrical improvisation -- ǂt Unrest in Baton Rouge -- ǂt Watershed -- ǂt Political poem -- ǂt Eternity -- ǂt Ash -- ǂt Beatific -- Charity -- In your condition -- 4 1/2 -- Dusk -- Urban youth -- The everlasting self -- Annunciation -- Refuge -- An old story.