Cover; Contents; Strung; Yes!; In My Dream; Mirror, Mirror; Love over Physics; Honestly; Oh Well; Some Big Loud Woman; No Blanket but Stars; All that Light; Receiving; Just Might; Adoration; The Baby Bed; All Hallow's Eve; Shake; Morning; Half a Chance; Talking in the Basement; Life Sentence; Temple Bells; At the Welsh Folklife Museum; Tree Valentine; If I could find; All; My Dearest Darling; Which Is Why; African Violets; Diving Lesson; Mother of Pearl; Found; This Kitchen Floor; With a Song in His Heart; Sing Out!; Mary; Troubadour; ""We'll See That Day Come 'Round"; Eve of Winter
In the BalanceOak; Inventing Sin; I Want to Say; Prayer; Dearest; Meeting the Notebook; Poultry; At Talland House; To Say Nothing of Your Face; Four Stone Steps; To Virginia; From the Page; That Night; Release; She Let Herself Go
In this collection, Jacqueline Osherow gives us perfectly formed, musical poems that glide between the worlds of art, architecture, literature, and religion. Traveling through Europe, Tel Aviv, and New York, Osherow observes with a keen eye the details of objects-beautiful buildings and ancient artifacts-and of the conversations and interactions she has with others. Finely constructed and always engaging, her poems uncover the startling truths of memory and coax our own forgotten moments from the recesses of the mind
