The Power to Change Geography / / Diana O'Hehir.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: O'Hehir, Diana,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 99
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (74 p.)

Writing about poetry Diana Ó Hehir says, "I think of poetry as harnessed energy-as a marvelous way of taking the chaotic emotion, the turbulent perception, and recreating them as images that are specific, definite, directed. Miraculously, when this process works, it's one of expansion rath...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• I
• They Arrive This Morning
• The Power to Change Geography
• The Retarded Children Find a World Built Justfor Them
• The Prophet of Salt Lake City
• Called
• Vision; Fire Underground
• I Attend the Saint's Death
• Waterfall
• II
• The Days Are Getting Shorter
• Alone by the Road's Edge
• A Landscape Never Explored
• Vision of Bea
• In Mexico: The Indian Woman
• We Live in the Ice Country
• Survivor
• Threatened
• Victim
• Illinois Central Hospital
• The Sea Creature
• House
• The Child at the End of the World
• III
• Living on the Earthquake Fault
• Growing Coal
• The Worst Motel
• Besieged
• Cars Go by Outside, One After Another
• An Isthmus in the Bay
• Maude's Bar Like
• Are You Concerned for Your Safety, Alone in the House?
• Ship Wreck
• January Class: It Hasn't Rained for Seven Months
• IV
• In the Basement of my First House
• Recluse
• Four A.M.
• Our World, and Us, Remade by Heat
• Metastasis
• Anger
• Waiting for my Eyes to Open on Day
• Night's End
• The Place Where Dreams Stop
• New Tenants
• V
• After the Cataclysm
• Watching
• How to Forgive
• Metamorphosis
• Recovering Exorcising Ghosts
• Exorcising Ghosts
• Learning to Type
• Reprieved
• After You're All in Bed
• Home
• Anima
• Backmatter