Esperanza: Poems for Orpheus [Paperback]

Holly Prado (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1998

Poetry. These poems hold a sweet ripeness, a vast dark promise: poetry will heal us, heal our world. 'From grief, the music.' We come back to it. 'There's no other way'" -Diane DiPrima.

Editorial Reviews

Review

At The Same Time
Autumn
Awake
Big Yellow And White Daisy Earrings
The Birds, Just After The Brushfires
Blowing
The Cassatt String Quartet
The Chorus
The Closest Act
Comedy, And The Tomato Being Eaten
The Daily Journal
Do Not Touch This Tree. The Manager Does Not Want You To Trim It
Ears That Turn In Every Strong Direction
Esperanza
Euridice
Euridice Talks About Her Choice Of Contemplation
Flowerage
Gentle, She Confirms, About This God
The God Who Can Chew
A Hand Raised, Waving A Letter
Harvest (2)
Hekate: This Hallowe'en
A Hundred Degrees
Is Always Physical
It's All True
It's Autumn Again
Its Meaning In Its Skin
Kissed
The Letters, Upside Down
Lyre
A Man Kneels In The Grass
The Moon Follows The Sun Like A French Translation Of A Russian ....
Music At Home
My Mother Enters The Underworld
No God Is Local
Nothing More Than Morning
The Oldest Habits
One Ritual I've Been Asked To Do
Orpheus At Christmas
Orpheus, Invent The Moon Again
Orpheus, Your Penis Moon-sweet
Our Panic When The God Himself Is Slain
Rilke As Door
Someone Has Died Again
Surrounded
The Swan In The Deck Of Fortunes
The Tall, Upheaving One
The Temple Next To The Restaurant
A Test Of His Patience
Thin Winter Sun
This God's Music Is My Lost Face
Umbra
Van Gogh Recovers
We Move Our Food Outdoors
What Damage Causes This Beginning
What Is Exactly Going Through
The Whole Family
Why I Write
With Teeth
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

HOLLY PRADO has been writing and publishing for many years. Her work, which combines the personal and the mythic with evocative intensity, has appeared in more than a hundred publications and a dozen anthologies, both nationally and internationally. Her seventh book, Esperanza: Poems for Orpheus (Cahuenga Press, 1998), has been highly praised, particularly in The Women's Review of Books (Wellesley College) and The Chicago Review. In 1999, she received First Prize in the Los Angeles Poetry Festival's Fin de Millennium Awards. She teaches both privately and in the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC. Her selected poems and prose, These Mirrors Prove It, was published by Cahuenga Press in 2004. She was awarded a Certificate of Recognition from the City of Los Angeles in 2006.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Cahuenga Press (January 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964924056
• ISBN-13: 978-0964924055
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,497,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)