Artichoke & Other Poems / / Phyllis Thompson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Thompson, Phyllis,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (74 p.)

This is the first book-length collection of poems by a woman whose artistry and poetic vision are already mature. The author has this to say about her poetry:“I care so much about place and about the creatures, buildings, and plants which are in the places I know that these may seem my chief subjects. But though I think they are the sources of the poems, human experience as it is discovered in places is my subject.”

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Artichoke -- Seagirt -- Raking -- Helen -- A Fairy Tale -- The Hands of the Man with the Red Beard -- Penelope -- Judas -- Come -- Joyful News out of the New Found World -- The wasp -- Bagging this fine game -- A Fair Quiet Day -- What the Preacher Said Is True -- To a Great Lady -- Summer Indoors -- End of Winter -- Architectural Syllables -- The Island at Night -- The Beneficent Influence of Cane Fields -- The Dogs -- Andrea -- Possessed -- The Walls of Snow -- Every Occasion -- The Palms Transplanted -- At the Airstrip -- The Landscapes of heaving -- Hours of Banana heaves -- The Bench under the Pear Tree -- Leaving You -- Parable of the Lame Poet -- At the Royal Hawaiian -- The First Heaven -- Two Mementos -- Emptied Heaven -- Pumpkin Flower -- Baroque -- Escape Artist -- Domestic Animal -- Gecko! -- An Idle Day in August -- Blessed Are They That Mourn -- Windstorm -- November -- Cops and Robbers -- Vacancy -- Questions -- What Stays -- The Cave