Talking to My Body

Name: Talking to My Body
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ISBN: 9781556591082

ISBN-10: 155659108X

ISBN-13: 9781556591082

Edition: N/A

Authors: Anna Swir, Czeslaw Milosz, Leonard Nathan

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With a critical afterword by Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and National Book Award nominee Leonard Nathan.

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 4/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 140
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Czeslaw Milosz is the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent publications are Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz (FSG, 1997) and Road-side Dog (FSG, 1998). He lives in Berkeley, California.



Introduction


Poems About My Father and My Mother


A Cardboard Suitcase


My Father Would Recall


My Mother, Miss Stasia


Soup for the Poor


An Artist Moves


Before Dawn


White Wedding Slippers


They Saved Me


Three Pieces of Candy


I Am Eleven


Vacations in Kurpieland


My Father's Workshop


Christmas Eve


He Did Not Jump from the Third Floor


Father in Krakow


Mother Sings Again


Mother Dying


She Came to Say Farewell


In the Other World


Her Death is in Me


Calm Down


He Sang All His Life


Old Madman


I Wash the Shirt


He Strode Against the Tide


A Film About My Father


We Survived Them


Wind


I Am Filled with Love


Happiness


Woman Unborn


Troubles with the Soul at Morning Calisthenics


Myself and My Person


Maternity


A Visit


Seventy Years


Tears


Terminally Ill


My Suffering


To Be a Woman


A Woman Talks to Her Thigh


Three Bodies


You Are Warm


I Sleep in Blue Pajamas


What is a Pineal Gland


You Sleep


Male and Female


Tears Stream


My Body Effervesces


A Bitch


A Spring


I Cannot


Iron Currycomb


Go to a Western


The Same Inside


Large Intestine


I'll Open the Window


In Railway Stations


Nonexistent


A Gentle World


The Youngest Children of an Angel


In a Crimson Gondola


The First Madrigal


The Second Madrigal


An Iron Hedgehog


A Plate of Suffering


Virginity


Happy as a Dog's Tail


I Starve My Belly for a Sublime Purpose


I Knocked My Head Against the Wall


I Say to My Body: You Carcass


I Sleep and Snore


I Protest


Thing Indescribable


She Does Not Remember


The Greatest Love


The Old Woman


A Conversation with a Little Flower


The Sea and Man


To That Which is Most Important


Poetry Reading


I Must Fight An Angel


I Do Not Accept


Goddess of Matriarchy


That Would Not Be Good


Priceless Gifts


Like an Egyptian


Four Very Fat Legs


Falling Asleep


The Soul and the Body on the Beach


A Handy Sun


There is a Light in Me


I Am Running on the Beach


I Do Not Know How to Bark


I Am Raking Hay


When I Am Digging Potatoes


A Woman Writer Does Laundry


I Talk to My Body


By the Well


A Dirty Sexy Poem


Sad Lovers


It is Not Easy


A Double Rapture


Poems About My Friend


Love with Rucksacks


Our Two Silences


Beach Sandals


Like a He-Bear and a She-Bear


Tell Me


Anxiety


Thank You, My Fate


I Look with My Eyes Flooded by Tears


Take My Pain


My Friend Speaks When Dying


Afterword: A Dialogue (1985)


Postscript