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    Zorba's Daughter: poems
    Zorba's Daughter: poems
    Zorba's Daughter: poems
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    Zorba's Daughter: poems

    By Elisabeth Murawski

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    In Zorba's Daughter, the 14th volume in the Swenson Poetry Award series, Elisabeth Murawski speaks from a vital and unique sensibility, finding in ordinary images an opening to the passion of human courage in the face of deep existential pain and ambivalence. These poems awaken our joy as well as guilt, our hope as well as grief. They often evoke a sorrowful music, like the voice of mourning, but even in pointing to "the black holes of heaven," Murawski turns our gaze upward.

    Zorba's Daughter was selected for the Swenson Award by the distinguished poet Grace Schulman. An icon of the literary scene, Schulman is acclaimed for her searching, highly original, lyric poetry, as well as for her teaching and her influential tenure as the poetry editor at The Nation, (1971-2006). Harold Bloom calls her "one of the permanent poets of her generation." Richard Howard says, "she is a torch."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUtah State University Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2010
    ISBN9780874217971
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      Zorba's Daughter - Elisabeth Murawski

      May Swenson

      Poetry Award Series

      Volume 14

      ZORBA'S DAUGHTER

      poems

      by

      Elisabeth Murawski

      UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

      Logan, Utah

      2010

      Utah State University Press

      Logan, Utah 84322-7800

      © 2010 Elisabeth Murawski

      foreword © 2010 Grace Schulman

      All rights reserved

      Publication credits appear in the acknowledgments.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Cover art La Joueuse de Flûte by Camille Claudel. Photo courtesy of Reine-Marie Paris.

      Used by permission of Artists Rights Society.

      Series cover design by Barbara Yale-Read

      9780874217957 (cloth)

      9780874217964 (pbk)

      9780874217971 (ebook)

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Murawski, Elisabeth

         Zorba’s daughter : poems / by Elisabeth Murawski.

            p. cm. -- (May Swenson poetry award series ; v. 14)

         ISBN 978-0-87421-795-7 (cloth : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-87421-796-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-87421-797-1 (e-book)

         I. Title.

         PS3563.U7228Z44 2010

         811’.54--dc22

                                                             2010009601

      For Alexia and Haley

      Contents

      Foreword by Grace Schulman

      ONE

      Zorba’s Daughter

      On Arriving and Departing

      Normal: A Surgical Lovesong

      Safeway Via Dolorosa

      The Interview

      Windy City

      The Living Room, My Sister Wrote, Had Seven Windows

      Before the Air Became the Journey

      Home Burial Scene

      Wedding Fall-out

      Chicago Spelling Bee Championship

      Puella

      The Moon Academy

      The Fish

      Blue Lady

      The Potato Lovers

      Prize

      For the Cat Anthony

      Dusky

      On Forgiving the Great Price

      Frightened by Italy

      TWO

      Hatteras Lighthouse

      Arms

      Zone

      Camille Claudel at Large

      In an Elizabethan Garden

      Mosque

      Mourning Doves

      The Trap

      Not to Be

      Leda in the Park

      Italian Evening

      Almost Naomi

      I Lose My Way to Your House

      Of a Feather

      Virus

      Meditation the Morning After

      Unrequited

      The Proposal

      Two Poets: A Sequel

      Grooming

      THREE

      Metaphysical

      Long After Dark at the Church Carnival

      On Hearing a Lecture on Stars

      The Chapel That Tempted O’Keeffe to Become a Catholic

      At the Smallest National Cemetery, Balls Bluff, VA

      Planes

      Key of Heaven

      All the Things I Couldn’t Say

      Creche

      Sculpture: The Young Acrobat

      Small Fires—Nagasaki

      Lullaby of the Train

      One Eye

      Child in Art Therapy

      This Way, That Way

      At Risk

      Pretending in the Shower to be Blind

      Patient

      Yak

      After the Flower

      Vanishing Point(s)

      Glass

      Thoughts on St. Agatha

      Earth Day

      Note from a Train

      On the High Speed Train to Vendome, I See a Woman Who Looks Like Madame Cezanne

      Phrygian

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      The May Swenson Poetry Award

      FOREWORD

      I heard music, anonymous and sublime, throughout my reading of the finalist manuscripts in this poetry contest. I wondered how to choose one of them when I wanted to award, or at least thank, a number of writers for letting me enjoy their vitality and skill. Then Zorba’s Daughter leaped out at me with an urgency whose source was charged language. Time and again, I was compelled by the best word, the unpredictable phrase, the surprise.

      The writer’s name, I found out later, is Elisabeth Murawski, and I regret that the

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