Beautiful Lesson of the I: poems

by Frances Brent

Overview

The Beautiful Lesson of the I is a collection of finely made poems by an accomplished poet. It will reward the scholar and the student of poetry, as well as the reader looking for the simple pleasures of poetic insight authentically felt. Winner of the Swenson Poetry Award 2005. Now in paperback.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874215229
Publisher:	Utah State University Press
Publication date:	09/26/2008
Series:	Swenson Poetry Award , #9
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	81
File size:	249 KB

About the Author

Frances Brent's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Notre Dame Review, Yale Review, and in many other journals. She was born in Chicago and was educated at Barnard College. She studied poetry at Columbia University and the University of Illinois, Chicago. From 1984-1991 she co-edited the literary journal Formations. In 1987 she co-translated Beyond the Limit: poems by Irina Ratushinska-
ya. She has taught at Yale, Northwestern, Loyola University, and Barat College. She lives with her family in New Haven.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments Foreword by Rachel Hadas Part One The Clear and Sonorous Air The Silver Skates Delft Port de la Rochelle Plate and Insect Little Dream Before Sleep Lampholder and Bucket Angel Apple Bleeding Heart Blisters Bottles Butterfly Cage Corpse Dog Egg Eggs in a Basket Figure and Moth Fire Fire in the Doll's House Globe Harlequin Heart with Metal Cords Hen and Chick Horse Infant Man and Demons Melon The Place Where I Harbor Anger Porcelain Blue Boat Rain on the Mountain The Rat Rose Scissors Shells Snow with the Cat Star Thundermouth Tree Vagabond Part Two The Box Ghost Cat Relic Dream Theatrical of Clowns Old Story from the House with Puppets The Beautiful Lesson of the I Strike or Massacre Undo Memory is the Treasure House of All Things