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作       者:Peterson, Katie

出  版  社:University of Chicago Press

出版时间:2013-09-19

字       数:4.3万

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The death of a mother alters forever a family's story of itself. Indeed, it taxes the ability of a family to tell that story at all. The Accounts narrates the struggle to speak with any clear understanding in the wake of that loss. The title poem attempts three explanations of the departure of a life from the earth-a physical account, a psychological account, and a spiritual account. It is embedded in a long narrative sequence that tries to state plainly the facts of the last days of the mother's life, in a room that formerly housed a television, next to a California backyard. The visual focus of that sequence, a robin's nest, poised above the family home, sings in a kind of lament, giving its own version of ways we can see the transformation of the dying into the dead. In other poems, called "e;Arguments,"e; two voices exchange uncertain truths about subjects as high as heaven and as low as crime. Grief is a problem that cannot be solved by thinking, but that doesn't stop the mind, which relentlessly carries on, trying in vain to settle its accounts. The death of a well-loved person creates a debt that can never be repaid. It reminds the living of our own psychological debts to each other, and to the dead. In this sense, the death of this particular mother and the transformation of this particular family are evocative of a greater struggle against any changing reality, and the loss of all beautiful and passing forms of order.
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Cover

Copyright Page

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

One: Spring

Spring

Elegy

Argument about Heaven

Sore Throat

Argument about Appetite

The Replacement

Earth

When Fruit and Flowers Hung Thick Falling

Allied Arts

Argument about the Beginning

Enough

Beauty

Rest

Wilderness

Two: The Body

The Garden

Nest

Foresight

Symbol

A Potter

Eulogy

Riot

From the Nest

The Accounts

The Body

Radiation

Three: I Am The Middle

I Am the Middle

From This House That House

Earth

Confession

Argument about Silence

Animals

Argument about Responsibility

Ars Poetica: Fuchsia

Gods

Winter

Snake

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