Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced

Name: Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced
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ISBN: 9781882295456

ISBN-10: 1882295455

ISBN-13: 9781882295456

Edition: 2004

Authors: Catherine Barnett

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The family response to the sudden deaths of the speaker's two young nieces is at the center of Catherine Barnett's award-winning first collection. This series of elegies records the transit of grief, observing with an unflinching eye how a singular traumatic event can permanently alter our understanding of time, danger, the material world and family. Marked by clarity and restraint, these lyric poems narrate a suspenseful, wrenching story that explores the depths and limits of empathy. "Altar" Except for her own hands, . except for her own hands that keep folding the shirt pulled from the ocean, . except for her own body that because it once held theirs . must still hold something of…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Alice James Books
Publication date: 5/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



Frontispiece


The return


From the fence around the school


Aubade


Transcript


Nits


Site


Living room altar


Ritual


After trying to calculate the weight of a six-year-old


Duration


Site, II


As by giving or letting go


The disbelieving


Into perfect spheres such holes are pierced


Refusal


The return, II


Site, III


Portrait


Still life with no end


Two girls, white sky


What the naked eye looks for but cannot find


While my sister sleeps


Site, IV


Journal


Theology


Evening in the garden


Meditation on falling


Part to stand for whole


Vashon Island, Washington


Ninth birthday


As if by fastening


Book of lies


Home


Body of water, body of glass


Family reunion


Still life with departure


Still life with paper and thread


Child learning to write


Pitch and black lift


Dinosaur park


Scratch harvest


Story


Memento Mori


Broken clock


Son with older boys


River