Snow on Snow

by Maura Stanton

Overview

A reissuing of Snow on Snow, poetry by Maura Stanton.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887481598
Publisher:	Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1993
Series:	Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

MAURA STANTON’s Snow on Snow won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1975. Her second book, Cries of Swimmers, was published by the University of Utah Press in 1984 and reissued by Carnegie Mellon in 1991. Tales of the Supernatural was published by David R. Godine in 1988. Her novel, Molly Companion, was set in South America, and reprinted in Spanish as Rio Abajo. Her book of stories about growing up in the Midwest appeared from Milkweed Editions in 1988. Maura Stanton’s poems have appeared in many magazines including The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Crazyhorse, and Ploughshares. She teaches in the M.F.A. Program at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Perspectives
Mykonos
The Sled
A Voice for the Sirens
Dreaming of Shells
Widows
The All-Night Waitress
In Ignorant Cadence
Barnyard
Unwell
Judith Recalls Holofernes
Proteus’s Tale
The Snow House
Short Story
In the House of the Brain
Poem
The Invention of Mortality

A Few Picnics in Illinois
Elegy for Snow
Letter to Kafka
Job’s New Children
Ophelia
North
Grandfather
Caring for the Generals
The Conjurer
Elegy for the Whole Ward
The Boy Next Door: A Pastoral
The Fisherman’s Wife
The Goosegirl
Going Back
The Stutterer
Lovers Leaving My Bed
The Dreams
Autobiography

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