The Green Girls,9780807128558

The Green Girls

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ISBN13: 9780807128558
ISBN10: 0807128554
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-03-01
Publisher(s): Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Summary

Green is the color of beginnings, of memory and regeneration, of the "fluid arc of what has been, / forever becoming us." John Blair's debut poetry collection, The Green Girls, takes the reader on a journey through life as it explores such subjects as marriage, family, and sex. Written in several voices, from husband and wife, brother and sister, young and old, the poems remind us that paradise "doesn't invite us back." Although filled with sadness and pain, Blair's elegantly written free verse resonates with a quiet optimism even while discussing losses and lapses that give life both its terror and its potential for redemption.

Author Biography

John Blair's The Green Girls was selected by Cornelius Eady for the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series. His poems appear in Poetry, Georgia Review, New Letters, and elsewhere and his short story collection, American Standard, won the 2002 Drue Heinz Award. He lives in Texas with his wife and son.

Table of Contents

Salvage
Cicada
3(2)
Salvage
5(1)
Dragging for the Dead
6(2)
Oleander
8(2)
Winter Storm, New Orleans
10(1)
Christ of St. John of the Cross
11(1)
Breath
12(5)
Mercy
Mercy
17(2)
Running Away
19(2)
The Lesser Bodies of the Solar System
21(3)
Weathering
24(2)
At Seventy, Visited by her Son
26(2)
She Dreams of a Boy Drowning
28(5)
The Green Girls
In the Swimmer's Dressing Room at the Y
33(2)
The Southern Lights
35(2)
Madness and Love
37(1)
The Weather Child
38(1)
Pig Days
39(1)
Crazy Jane Watches the Dancers
40(1)
The Green Girls
41(1)
Rain Dancing
42(5)
The Orders of Absence
The Lost Boys
47(1)
The Orders of Absence
48(2)
The Rigolets
50(2)
Handling Serpents
52(1)
Comfort
53

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