Gilbert: Blood Pressure - Poems [Hardcover]

S GILBERT (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 30, 1988

A selection of poems that focus on the self, Blood Pressure shares Gilbert's concern with the mysteries surrounding the blood and family lineage.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This collection amply demonstrates Gilbert's gift of metaphor, her ability to express emotion imaginatively. Thus, in a poem that integrates the poet's experience with that of a child who fell in love with the Snow Queen, ice becomes a symbol of rejection. Throughout, Gilbert deals not with world catastrophe but the personal, yet she is never maudlin. Instead, she skillfully conjures up her family and childhood in poems exuding a delicate nostalgia: "My Grandmother in Paris" imagines her grandmother as a young refugee walking in the Bois de Boulogne, while the final poem imagines her own as yet unknown granddaughter wondering what the poet was like: "My words/. . . an unknown monument" but the "road unfolds and shines ahead . . . toward the inarticulate Aegean." Recommended.Daisy Aldan, Thomas Coll., Waterville, Me.
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Review

2085
Accident
After Thanksgiving
Anniversary Waltz
Beets
Belgian Endive: For An Old Friend
Blood Presure
But I Don't Love Him
The Cure
Easter 1949
Empty Nest
Five Potatoes
For Edna St. Vincent Millay
For Miss Lewis And Miss Newton
Grandpa
Hooked Rug
How You Fell
In The Golden Sala
Invocation
Jackson Heights
Jackson Heights Apartment Kitchen, 1948
Jump Rope
The Last Poem About The Snow Queen
Late Beethoven
The Love Sickness
Low Tide
Marriage
The Mothers At Seventy
My Grandmother In Paris
New Year's Eve
On The Train
The One He Loves
The Parachutist's Wife
Phaeton
Pinocchio
Ponce De Leon
Rain/insomnia/north Coast
Reproduction
The Return Of The Muse
Rissem
Sauna
Singles, Or, Never Eat Standing Up
The Summer Kitchen
Talking To An Old Friend
Thinking About An Old Friend
This Is Not
The Three Sisters: 1. The One Who Went Away
The Three Sisters: 2. The One Who Stayed Behind
The Three Sisters: 3. The Third Sister
To A Man Who Advises Maturity
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Twilight
What He Hates/ What He Loves
A Year Later
You Call Him Little Kay, You Sing Him An Aubade
You Discover You're In Love With The Dead Prince
You Meet The Real Dream Mother-in-law
You See The Armless Woman
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 114 pages
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co; 1st edition (November 30, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393026094
• ISBN-13: 978-0393026092
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,951,931 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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