To err is to wander, and the speaker of Maureen Bloomfield's Error and Angels wakes to find that she has strayed, like Dante's traveler, from the path whose end is light. Voices from her Catholic school days, figures from the Judaeo-Christian mythos, and fragments from the history of art inform her ironic, iconic quest. Invoking Iphigenia, Sarah, Mary, Magdalen, Giuliana, and others, she questions the confluences, in women's lives, between renunciation and fertility, beauty and its abnegation-acts and attributes whose ramifications imply a provisional, deleterious kind of power. Bloomfield writes of shifting landscapes-London, Paris, the American Midwest, Florida, Florence. These places align the interior and exterior mirrors as she inspects the conjunction between fate and folly, misapprehension and mistake. At the heart of these poems is the mystery of language as it demonstrates the exigencies of goodwill and of grace.
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Achill
Apparition
The Birth Of The Virgin
Blessed Giuliana
Charing Cross
Dies Irae
Don't Borrow Trouble, Chil'
Erinnerung
Fortune
La Grande Chasse
Les Cahiers De La Malade
The Meeting Of Dante And Beatrice
Postulant
A Potter's Wheel
Rock And Tree And Water
Rose Bowl
Songs: 2. The Dance
A Story
Street Songs: 1. The View From Here
Street Songs: 3. Memorials
Street Songs: 4. Lotto
Tempesta
To Be Childless Is An Error
The Wood Of Error
Y W H
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Apparition
The Birth Of The Virgin
Blessed Giuliana
Charing Cross
Dies Irae
Don't Borrow Trouble, Chil'
Erinnerung
Fortune
La Grande Chasse
Les Cahiers De La Malade
The Meeting Of Dante And Beatrice
Postulant
A Potter's Wheel
Rock And Tree And Water
Rose Bowl
Songs: 2. The Dance
A Story
Street Songs: 1. The View From Here
Street Songs: 3. Memorials
Street Songs: 4. Lotto
Tempesta
To Be Childless Is An Error
The Wood Of Error
Y W H
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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