Ecstasy of Regret

Dannye Romine Powell writes of marriage, parenthood, and temptation -- of love in its many forms. Her lyrical, imagistic poems bring into sudden focus the subtle shifts of understanding and emotion within intimacy. In her reworking of the primal story of Eve and Adam and throughout all the poems, she elucidates how everyday life can sustain a family or sunder it. With clarity and care, she illuminates the world.

ISBN	1557287341	Pages	80
ISBN13	9781557287342 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	University of Arkansas Press	Weight (grammes)	127
Imprint	University of Arkansas Press	Published in	Fayetteville
Format	Paperback	Height (mm)	215
Publication date	15 Aug 2002	Width (mm)	162
Library of Congress	2002007150	Spine width (mm)	7
DEWEY	811.54	Academic level	General
DEWEY edition	DC21

		What Entices May Finally Recede		3
		Startled by Green		4
		The Absence of Lake		5
		Eve Screams for the Hoe		7
		The Woman Who Allowed Light to Have Its Way with Her		8
		The Day He Disappeared		9
		How the Muse Keeps Trying to Elude Me		10
		Where You Touched My Arm		12
		Eve Begs Adam to Play His Guitar		13
		A Man Calls to Say My Son Is on a Farm for Alcoholics outside Jackson, Mississippi		15
		The Other Life		16
		Eve's Out at the Edge		18
		The Wrong Dress		20
		Adam Tries to Explain to God That None of This Is His Fault		21
		Relapse		22
		Leaving the Garden		25
		Scattered Typing		29
		Eve's Growing Concern		34
		After Detox		35
		Deprivation		37
		Eve's Sorrows Multiplying		38
		Dread Begs to Fondle Your Breasts		39
		Eve Dreams of Mary Todd Lincoln		41
		I Hang Up the Phone after Hearing I Have Cancer		42
		At a Flea Market, A Woman Buys a Letter Postmarked 1944, From Sybil Reed to Louis Mack		43
		The Wink		45
		To the Neighbor Whose Gardenias I Stole Last Spring		47
		She Never Thought of Vegetables		51
		The Day Before My Father Died		52
		Wake the Tree		53
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