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Not Many Love PoemsLinda Chase10% off eBook (EPUB)
Categories: American
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (96 pages) (Pub. Sep 2011) 9781847770868 Out of Stock eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Sep 2011) 9781847779519 £9.95 £8.96 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
Not Many Love Poems tells the stories of a life, the stories kept close to the heart: long friendships and shorter love affairs, close bonds of family scattered across transatlantic distances, passion and loss. Loved friends and family, the living, the dead: vital presences.
From recollections of childhood and adolescence on Long Island to warm, unsentimental evocations of the new life-stage of grandparenthood, from adventures with lovers to a journey through breast cancer treatment, Linda Chase writes of a life richly lived, with wit, candour and a feisty energy. At the centre of the collection is a sequence of poems composed during a close friend’s final year. An account of grief and love, it celebrates the gift of ‘numberless, glorious, blessed days’, in which ‘our stories give themselves away’. Cover Painting by Joseph St. Amand. Private Collection. Reproduced by kind permission I Many Love Poems Our Life 11 One Summer Night 12 First Thought 13 The Word for It 14 Be Home by Midnight 15 Old Flame 16 Corsican Summer 17 Fire 18 Airstream Bubble Trailer 19 The Tao tells me to go on loving you 20 Hotel 21 Dare 22 Fallowfield 24 Married Man 25 Late 26 His Book 27 Marriage 28 Separation 29 Old Jewish Men 30 Yesterday 31 II Kisses and Harps Kisses At Arm’s Length 35 Primary Colours 36 How to Make Breasts Disappear 37 Ticks and Kisses 38 Health Scare 39 Non-Poetics 40 Sleeping 41 Lost Souls from Christie Hospital 42 Radiotherapy 43 Ray Charles Visits Suite 1, Radiotherapy Department, Christie Hospital, Manchester, England 44 Harps Pronouncement 46 Max 47 Gift House 48 Care Givers 49 Candour 50 Dwight Way 51 Harp in the Sick Room 52 Dying 53 Asleep and Awake 54 Resting Place 55 Home Funeral 56 The Midst 57 The Twenty-four Hours 58 III Our Lives Taffeta 61 Name 62 Contract for Love and Death 63 Jazzer 65 Winter on Long Island 66 Till Graduation 67 Deceased, Class of 1959 68 Giveaway 69 August 70 We know it’s not the same river every day 71 6 August, 1945 73 Sometimes Snow 75 Prospect Cottage 76 Mittens 77 Banana Crossing 78 On the Way to the Wedding 79 Secret 80 The Crawl 81 The Only Mother 82 Better 83
Praise for Linda Chase
'The Wedding Spy is a lucid, intelligent collection that doodles with traditional form and which scopes the poet's own life.'
Vic Allen, North magazine.
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