The Age of the Flower
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The Age of the Flower

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The Age of the Flower

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This collection of personal and autobiographical poems is written by Helga Sandburg, daughter of the poet, Carl Sandburg. It contains a quartet of poems written after the death of her husband, as well as work inspired by the themes of motherhood, music, nature, and travel.

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Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
9781612779355
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. The Age of the Flower
  7. All Praise to the Virtue Purity
  8. The Middle of Time
  9. In My Room Your Red Roses Are Unbeautifully Dying
  10. The Childe to the Tower Came
  11. The Unclasping
  12. On War
  13. I Am Walking through Rooms
  14. Close the Door Quietly
  15. Visit
  16. Bravery
  17. Let Us Suffer Alone, Lover
  18. The Ballad of Woman
  19. The Giraffe
  20. Dover Beach the Second
  21. The Importance of Mirrors
  22. Cantata for Two Lovers
  23. Airmail in Summer
  24. Woman
  25. Am I Waiting for a Knock upon the Door?
  26. Menelaus, Clytemnestra, and So Forth
  27. Sonnet about Our Neighbor's Wife
  28. My Thief
  29. I'm Trying to Learn How to Die
  30. Rilke, You Gave God Back to Me
  31. Lyric
  32. Sometimes I Feel the Envious Dead Crowd Near
  33. The Cancer
  34. Murder on the Table Top
  35. It Is April!
  36. A Short Alarming History at the Beginning of the World Regarding Songbirds
  37. Children of God
  38. Three Serpents in a Well in a Field
  39. Sin
  40. Destiny
  41. The Horsemen
  42. The Teenagers
  43. The Cabin
  44. Caging the Pipsissewa
  45. The Romance of the Responsible Mouse in Two Chapters
  46. The Calf of the Black Cow
  47. The Accident
  48. A Case of Bad Taste
  49. The Silence
  50. Song for a Poetess Done In by a Bunch of Red Blooms (in 3 Stanzas and a Chorus)
  51. On Returning to Egypt and Waking at the Ruins of the Continental Savoy Hotel After Visiting Cairo's Museum and Giza the Day Before and in the Evening Attending the "Sound and Light" Spectacle Which Was in Incomprehensible French Although English Had Been Promised
  52. The Visitor
  53. For a Father
  54. At Twenty (To My Son)
  55. Someone Should Say It to You, Daughter
  56. Song for Sascha
  57. On Leaving My Six-day-old Grandson, Birch
  58. Freed
  59. Amen
  60. To a Step-Grandson One Hour of Age
  61. Sonnet about My Daughter among the Flowers
  62. From in the Dream (For Barney)
  63. The Invisible Animals
  64. Country People Are Less Alone than Others
  65. Poems to the Dog, Gustav
  66. The Garden
  67. The Fable of the Dog and the Possum
  68. In Time
  69. Night Riders
  70. The Clown Prince
  71. Walking the Dog
  72. Eulogy for a Crow
  73. Your Dog
  74. The Cat and the Chameleon
  75. On Transplanting Two Rootbound Monarda Fistulosa and One Cushion Spurge
  76. Psalm to a Guinea Pig Less than One Day Old
  77. The Killer
  78. Karma (For Dr. Haruo Ezaki of Hiroshima)
  79. To a Dog Whose Mistress Is in Europe for a Month
  80. The Rape of the Garden
  81. The Message
  82. The Stroke
  83. Poem for My Husband on His Birthday Which He Didn't Quite Make
  84. A Pure Act
  85. Widow's Sonnet
  86. Widow's Sonnet #2
  87. The Widow's Lover
  88. Widow's Elegy
  89. Praise with a Lament