Burning Point

by Frances Richey

Overview

"Relentlessly heartfelt and stringently beautiful, Frances Richey's poems recall us to a cycle we should never forget: the only way into the world is through the family; the only way into the family is through the self; the only way into the self is through the world. On page after page . . . we confront words born of necessity: nothing trivial or tossed off, everything wrenched and crafted from the rock of felt thought. The realms of other art-Renoir, Giacometti, Vermeer-feed Richey's perception, but she never forgets her obligation to have her own difficult making be foremost."-Stephen Corey

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781893996717
Publisher:	White Pine Press NY
Publication date:	04/15/2004
Series:	White Pine Press Poetry Prize
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 9.24(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Frances Richey is a poet and a teacher of yoga and meditation. Her poems have appeared in Cream City Review, Gulf coast, Mudfish, Notre Dame Review, Poetry Northwest, Salmagundi, and Willow Springs.

Table of Contents

I.
	Sitting With Renoirs: A Young Girl With Daisies	11
	Pictures	12
	Walking Man	14
	In My Mother's Story	18
	In Her Own Words	22
	Child	24
	Time Song	25
	Even Though I Am Not Alone	27
II.
	Winter Fields	37
	The Last Day	38
	I Loved	40
	Polaroid	42
	Lovers In Blue	43
	Sitting With Renoirs: By The Seashore	44
	Flower Journal	52
	Trodden Weed	56
III.
	Nudes And Bathers	61
	I Was Not Forgiving	64
	On The Top Of Burnt Head	67
	Thursday, Broke	70
	The Model	71
	My Body Is Home	73
	The Ray	75
	Christmas At Mother's House In Winterhaven	76
IV.
	Woman Holding A Balance	83
	The Yoga Lesson	86
	The Movies	88
	Sitting With Renoirs: Bather Arranging Her Hair	91
	Christ In The House Of Mary And Martha	94
	The Chariot	97
	Wind From The Sea	100
	The Return	102
	The Author	105
	Notes on the Poems	107