{"product_id":"unholy-heart-new-and-selected-poems-9781496225948","title":"Unholy Heart  New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnholy Heart\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of Grace Bauer’s best selected poems, marking her twenty-five years as an award-winning poet.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Grace Bauer is a first-rate narrative metaphysician, telling stories as ideas and ideas as stories. . . . A keen inventiveness lights up every poem in this new and selected collection, in which the beautifully, uniquely observed detail exists not for its own sake but as one more clue leading us toward unsettling discoveries.”—Dorothy Barresi, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat We Did While We Made More Guns \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUnholy Heart\u003c\/i\u003e offers us a record of a poet, steadily, and with craft, deep reflection, wit, sensuality, and honesty—building a case for the dismantling of patriarchy through the challenge of persistent myths that undergird American culture, from the Bible to popular culture to art history to various mythologies of ancient and present mintage. With masterful use of ekphrastic poetry, persona poems, narrative poems, formal poems, and free verse, Grace Bauer’s body of work, presented beautifully and generously in this volume, is a welcome and important addition to the poetry of the Midwest, and to the poetry of America.”—Kwame Dawes, author of \u003ci\u003eNebraska: Poems \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eUnholy Heart\u003c\/i\u003e we witness the unfolding of a life, a voice, and a spirit, often as the speaker inhabits other voices, from the biblical Marys to Marilyn Monroe, via iconic visual artists and their art, and via a range of landscapes, of homes seen anew. ‘What I once called home \/ today seems strange,’ Bauer writes as the biblical Ruth, and it is that perception and re-perception, and an intensifying openness to mystery and interior journeying, that characterizes this collection.”—Diane Seuss, author of \u003ci\u003eStill Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eThe Women at the Well\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eve Recollecting the Garden    \u003cbr\u003e Noah’s Wife Addresses the Department of the Interior    \u003cbr\u003e Lot’s Daughters Bent on Revenge    \u003cbr\u003e Ruth: On Wandering. On Wonder.    \u003cbr\u003e Judith Dreaming of Her General    \u003cbr\u003e Mary Recalling Bethlehem    \u003cbr\u003e Anne: On the Darkness in Daughters    \u003cbr\u003e Salome: The Choreography of Guilt    \u003cbr\u003e The Prodigal Daughter’s Girl    \u003cbr\u003e Pilate’s Wife Welcoming Nightmare    \u003cbr\u003e Martha to Mary: The Quotidian Demands of the Flesh    \u003cbr\u003e Mary to Martha: The Theological Insignificance of Dust    \u003cbr\u003e Mary Magdalene’s Chapter and Verse    \u003cbr\u003e Mary: A Confession and Complaint    \u003cbr\u003e The Women at the Well    \u003cbr\u003e From Retreats \u0026amp; Recognitions\u003cbr\u003e Note from the Imaginary Daughter    \u003cbr\u003e Norma Jean Dreams a Blonde Finale    \u003cbr\u003e A Little Like Dorothy    \u003cbr\u003e Retreat    \u003cbr\u003e Modern Clothing    \u003cbr\u003e Theadosia Comes to the New World    \u003cbr\u003e Plot Lines    \u003cbr\u003e Fat Tuesday    \u003cbr\u003e Second Lining at My Own Jazz Funeral    \u003cbr\u003e Star    \u003cbr\u003e Latter Day Saints    \u003cbr\u003e Extreme Unction    \u003cbr\u003e Midlife Heavy Metal    \u003cbr\u003e On Finding a Footnote to Truckin’    \u003cbr\u003e Broke Down Palace    \u003cbr\u003e Lunacy    \u003cbr\u003e Geography Lessons    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From\u003ci\u003e Beholding Eye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Portraits of the Rich    \u003cbr\u003e Large Bathers    \u003cbr\u003e Mrs. Eakins’s Final Touches    \u003cbr\u003e Frida Digresses on Red    \u003cbr\u003e Room in New York    \u003cbr\u003e Birthday    \u003cbr\u003e Georgia, at Ninety, Learns to Make a Vessel    \u003cbr\u003e The Eye of the Beholder    \u003cbr\u003e Descending Nude    \u003cbr\u003e Rrose Sélavy No Longer Sings La Vie en Rose    \u003cbr\u003e Marcel Meets Georgia at 291    \u003cbr\u003e Where You’ve Seen Her    \u003cbr\u003e Her Search for Great Causes    \u003cbr\u003e Her Great Escape    \u003cbr\u003e For Her Villain    \u003cbr\u003e She Has Days    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eNowhere All At Once\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nowhere All At Once    \u003cbr\u003e Sight\/Seeing    \u003cbr\u003e Great Plains Prayer    \u003cbr\u003e Revenant    \u003cbr\u003e Against Lawn    \u003cbr\u003e The Bat    \u003cbr\u003e Gray Ghazal    \u003cbr\u003e Our Waitress’s Marvelous Legs    \u003cbr\u003e The Persistent Popularity of Angels    \u003cbr\u003e Two for The Bard and Bob Wood    \u003cbr\u003e Unrepentant Prayer    \u003cbr\u003e Off the Map    \u003cbr\u003e Still Life in Red    \u003cbr\u003e Flicker    \u003cbr\u003e Against Prayer    \u003cbr\u003e Corson’s Inlet    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eMEAN\/TIME\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Riff on the Glyph(s)     \u003cbr\u003e Conditional    \u003cbr\u003e MEAN\/TIME    \u003cbr\u003e “Books Become Windows”     \u003cbr\u003e Still Life as Oxymoron    \u003cbr\u003e Torsos    \u003cbr\u003e The Wandering Dream    \u003cbr\u003e Momentous    \u003cbr\u003e Against Proof    \u003cbr\u003e Fret    \u003cbr\u003e Sad September Song    \u003cbr\u003e Dyslexical    \u003cbr\u003e Caw    \u003cbr\u003e Means of Transport    \u003cbr\u003e Dusting the Angel    \u003cbr\u003e Glimpse    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e New Poems\u003cbr\u003e Fado    \u003cbr\u003e Terminal Grief    \u003cbr\u003e Sustenance    \u003cbr\u003e Provisions for the Journey    \u003cbr\u003e Prayer    \u003cbr\u003e Father, Faltering    \u003cbr\u003e Doldrums    \u003cbr\u003e Unspeakable Elegy    \u003cbr\u003e Mother, May I    \u003cbr\u003e Terminal Beauty    \u003cbr\u003e All My Dead Say Grace    \u003cbr\u003e Highway 2 Mirage    \u003cbr\u003e Not Quite Nirvana    \u003cbr\u003e Update on Emily    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409235026263,"sku":"9781496225948","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496225948.jpg?v=1730506075","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unholy-heart-new-and-selected-poems-9781496225948","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}