Jill Battson, whose first book of poems, Hard Candy, shook the poetry establishment by its well-starched neck, is back with a second breathtaking collection of lyric and elegiac poems. These are poems that are not afraid to name real people and real places, poems that revel in the relationships that make our lives, in the end, worth living.Ashes Are Bone and Dust maps the way through grief and recovery. The poems — sensual, disturbing and probing — document Battson's parents' death and the aftermath that loss leaves behind. They also address the process of recovery, pulling heavily on the journey for discovery both tangible and emotional.Battson's poems are raw and beautiful, difficult and flowing, intensly evocative and imbued with the language and imagery of sex.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781459309333 1894663047
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.B37576
- LCCN Item number
- A9 2001eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (95 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00211194 (OCoLC)696032387 (CaOOCEL)407978
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Ashes are Bone and Dust 4
- Ancient History 12
- Really Dead This Time 13
- Suspension While Moving 14
- Discomfort 15
- Sanguine 16
- The Dress 18
- At Austin's Funeral Home 19
- Neck 22
- Identifying Death's Perfume 23
- Her Hands 24
- Rose Detail in Green Daylight 25
- Three Times in Our Lives 27
- Floral Tribute 28
- A Visitor Named Memory 29
- Last Days 30
- Hierarchy 32
- Mixing Ashes 35
- Ashes are Bone and Dust 38
- Horningsham 39
- The Dead in My Dreams 41
- Voices from Beyond I 43
- Voices from Beyond II 44
- What happened after the photograph was taken 45
- Evening in Paris 47
- Carpenter 49
- Four Years of Census 51
- Full Moon Family History 52
- Laid out at St. Mark's 54
- Holiday 56
- Orange 57
- On Seeing Safia 58
- Desperation 59
- Creation 60
- Bronzing with Michael 61
- Humpty Dumpty in the Pink City 64
- Barcelona Whores 66
- Santa Maria della Pieta 68
- Figuring it Out 70
- In June Country 71
- Grey Dog on Red Scrub 73
- Crosses on the Median 75
- White Dwarf on Curdled Sky 77
- Diving off the Bridge 78
- Equivalence/Love 80
- Futility of Desire 81
- A Goodbye Poem 82
- Missing 84
- Antithesis 85
- When I invited the rest of the class on a morning hike I was met by silence 86
- Aspects of Breast 87
- Rain Series 88
- Italianos Canyon 89
- Lulling Language 90
- Sage Series 91
- Alone at Stephen's 92
- Eototo Studio 93
- The End of Winter 95
