In Hours of the Cardinal, a mother's death triggers poems that journey through grief into the unnamable origins of consciousness-before thought, talk, even printed words. These elegies weave stories and anecdotes from literature and the visual arts, literally trying to cheat death by facing it, even facing it down. The ghosts that take flesh in this collection are poets such as Tsvetayeva, Mandelstam, and Tu Fu, painters such as Max Ernst and Kahlo, the mystic Henry Vaughan, the singer-dancer Josephine Baker. By reprising these lives of exile and grief, the poems celebrate the body's attempt to endure in the face of historical atrocities, like the holocausts, racism, and the commodification of the human spirit. In the process of memorializing such lives, Richard Lyons fictionalizes his mother as one more member of the "great dead" as he levels the living and the dead by collaging autobiography and history into narrative meditations that carry the dignity of the individual against forces of greed and conformity.
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An Address To Marina Tsvetayeva Curling Inward
Anniversary
Archaic Smile
As Far As We Can See
The Black Venus: For Max Ernst 1
The Black Venus: For Max Ernst 2
The Black Venus: For Max Ernst 3
The Black Venus: For Max Ernst 4
Blackout
Blue Exorcism
Charon's Boat
The Corpse Washing
For Dianne Wherever She May Be
A Half Inch Of Blue Sky
Hours Of The Cardinal
In An Instant
In Defense Of The Body
Like Glass Pyramids At Midnight
Morning, Merrymeeting Lake
Some Weeks Before An Autumn Wedding
Stanzas Written At Baba Yaga's
Summer: Silver Flashing
Symmetry
The Thousands Of Little Fires
To My Deceased Mother 1
To My Deceased Mother 2
To My Deceased Mother 3
To My Deceased Mother 4
Two Deaths In San Bernadino
Vantage Point
The White Sky
With Arapaho Dreamcatcher
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Anniversary
Archaic Smile
As Far As We Can See
The Black Venus: For Max Ernst 1
The Black Venus: For Max Ernst 2
The Black Venus: For Max Ernst 3
The Black Venus: For Max Ernst 4
Blackout
Blue Exorcism
Charon's Boat
The Corpse Washing
For Dianne Wherever She May Be
A Half Inch Of Blue Sky
Hours Of The Cardinal
In An Instant
In Defense Of The Body
Like Glass Pyramids At Midnight
Morning, Merrymeeting Lake
Some Weeks Before An Autumn Wedding
Stanzas Written At Baba Yaga's
Summer: Silver Flashing
Symmetry
The Thousands Of Little Fires
To My Deceased Mother 1
To My Deceased Mother 2
To My Deceased Mother 3
To My Deceased Mother 4
Two Deaths In San Bernadino
Vantage Point
The White Sky
With Arapaho Dreamcatcher
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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I lost my mother recently & I remembered reading this book many years ago & decided to read it again. Moving & beautiful both times but more so after knowing such loss myself. James Dickey is one of my favorite U.S. poets.
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- A Taxi to the Flame (James Dickey Contemporary Poetry) by Vickie Karp in Back Matter
- Lilac Cigarette In A Wish Cathedral (James Dickey Contemporary Poetry) by Robin Magowan in Back Matter
- Error and Angels (James Dickey Contemporary Poetry) by Maureen Bloomfield in Back Matter
- Portrait in a Spoon (Poetry) by James Cummins in Back Matter
- The Land of Milk and Honey (James Dickey Contemporary Poetry) by Sarah Getty in Back Matter
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- Fleur Carnivore by Richard Lyons in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- From the Bones Out (James Dickey Contemporary Poetry) by Marisa de los Santos in Back Matter
- Drowned Lands (James Dickey Contemporary Poetry) by Paul Kane in Back Matter
- Without a Witness (James Dickey Contemporary Poetry) by Stella Johnson in Back Matter
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