Sarah's Choice

by Eleanor Wilner

Overview

In this, her third collection of poems, Eleanor Wilner revises a number of our culture's central myths; invoking figures as diverse as Briar Rose and Miriam the Prophet, she casts upon their stories, and choices, an enlivening feminist perspective.

"There is so much that is impressive in Wilner's mature poems. In an era which has been labelled 'The End of History,' she examines history's less obvious lessons. If the past is to teach us, she seems to say, then we must re-invent and re-shape it."—Poetry

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226900285
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	01/17/1990
Series:	Phoenix Poets
Edition description:	1
Pages:	110
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Eleanor Wilner is the author of two books of poems, maya, winner of the 1979 Juniper Prize, and Shekhinah, published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

I. Unbound
Coda, Overture
Reading the Bible Backwards
Miriam's Song
The Anabasis of Koré
Minor Epic
Desert Parable
Time Out of Mind
Sarah's Choice
II. Companions
Postscript
Going the Rounds
Homage to the River
Tucson Gardens
The American Sublime: Robert Penn Warren
The Autumn of the Poets
"He was the whitest white man . . . "
"Never Apologize for Poetry"
"Into the Distance Where All Things Reverse and Touch"
Two Pairs of Eyes
III. Lamentations
There Are Such Mornings
Beauty and the Beast
The Last Man
Colloquy with Medea
Infection in the Ear
As Far As It Goes, and Back
Gaijin Lament
High Noons at Los Alamos
Nandin's Tail
The Towers of Silence
IV. Returns
Classical Proportions of the Heart
A Tale That's Best for Winter
Sunset on the Pembrokeshire Cliff Path
On the Place of Theory in an Obsolete Poetics
Looking Back at Yeats
It's Not Cold Here
"Midway the journey of this life . . . "
Still Waters
The Green Connection
Conversation with a Japanese Student
Having Eaten of the Tree of Knowledge
Notes

Editorial Reviews

A new collection from an award winning poet who draws on sources from history, myth, and modern culture--often revising or reversing traditional stories--to reveal a complex vision. Paper edition, $9.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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