The Oval Hour
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The Oval Hour

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The Oval Hour

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In The Oval Hour Kathleen Peirce addresses the vulnerability of language—which is to say the vulnerability of our reality—when we are in extreme states of desire and loss, especially erotic desire and erotic loss. Central to the book is its series of "Confessions, " twenty formally similar poems that contend with the Confessions of Saint Augustine. "Passing through innocence, I came either to experience / or guilt, or they came to me, displacing innocence": these luminous poems explore the generation and overlapping of carnal and metaphysical identities.

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Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Year
1999
ISBN
9781587293030
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Ovidian
  3. Nearness and Entrance
  4. Confession 1.8.13
  5. Nude against the Light
  6. Confession 10.8.13
  7. Confession 4.2.3
  8. Confession 1.13.20
  9. Pygmalion in March
  10. Evening Poem
  11. Two Sisters
  12. Figure with Trees
  13. Thimble Forest
  14. Mirror Forest
  15. Seahorse Forest
  16. Confession 2.5.10
  17. Jessamine
  18. Of the Veritable Ocean
  19. Grief
  20. Mother and Son
  21. Confession 12.6.6
  22. Red
  23. Wren
  24. Confession 7.5.7
  25. Expulsion and Annunciation
  26. Dyke Breach
  27. Confession 11.19.25
  28. Butterfly House
  29. Confession 9.4.10
  30. Dreaming All Night
  31. Confession 3.10.18
  32. The Dead
  33. Promesa
  34. Homage to the Romantic Ballet
  35. Thought Might Nod in Waves
  36. Edenic
  37. PietĂ 
  38. Confession 11.11.13
  39. Confession 11.23.29
  40. Person, Place, Gesture, Thing
  41. Five-Part Question
  42. Round
  43. A Trade
  44. Divided Touch, Divided Color
  45. Confession 9.10.25
  46. First Lines
  47. Riddles
  48. Poem in Summer
  49. Confession 2.6.12
  50. Personae Separatae
  51. Confession 3.2.2
  52. Self-Portrait as Landscape
  53. Mountain Laurel
  54. Amaranth
  55. Confession 4.13.20
  56. Grace
  57. Poem
  58. Confession 7.21.27
  59. Her Sleep
  60. His Watching
  61. Confession 8.1.2
  62. Heav’n Hides Nothing from Thy View
  63. Taking Pleasure
  64. The Many Colors
  65. Confession 8.9.21
  66. Confession 13.9.10
  67. Notes