This document is a collection of poems by Christine Murray published by Smithereens Press. It contains 20 poems on various themes centered around nature, mythology, and the human experience. The poems range in length from a few lines to a full page and utilize imagery of the natural world, mythology, and the human body and senses. The collection was first published in June 2013 and includes an acknowledgements section about the author and her previous publications.
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I have compiled this book so that you can get it printed. Its available in PDF form and you can download it, i will leave the option open. Its an anthology taught in NUML and students often have difficulty finding poems.
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This file contains haiku and tanka write-ups of my wife.
I have compiled this book so that you can get it printed. Its available in PDF form and you can download it, i will leave the option open. Its an anthology taught in NUML and students often have difficulty finding poems.
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For Essay 1, write an explication of one of the assigned poe.docxRAJU852744
For Essay 1, write an
explication
of
one
of the assigned poems.
Choose to write about
only one
of the following:
"The Fish"
"A Blessing"
"My Papa's Waltz"
"Lady Lazarus"
"The Blue Bowl"
"Most Like an Arch This Marriage"
Unit 1 will cover, in detail, how to write an explication essay. In brief, "in an explication essay, you examine a work in much detail. Line by line, stanza by stanza...you explain each part as fully as you can and show how the author's techniques produce your response. An explication is essentially a demonstration of your thorough understanding of a work" (
Literature: The Human Experience
47).
For this particular essay, you will want to focus on the poetic techniques of diction, tone, image, and/or figurative language, which we will also cover in this unit.
Your essay should be between 500 and 750 words and adhere to MLA formatting. It needs to quote directly from your chosen text for support, but it should
not
use any secondary research.
Remember that the explication essay should
not just
summarize the poem.
It needs to look at the different elements of poetry used and offer a detailed
explanation
of the poem that also addresses the poem's overall effect and meaning.
The Fish
Elizabeth Bishop
,
1911
-
1979
I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my hook
fast in a corner of his mouth.
He didn’t fight.
He hadn’t fought at all.
He hung a grunting weight,
battered and venerable
and homely. Here and there
his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper,
and its pattern of darker brown
was like wallpaper:
shapes like full-blown roses
stained and lost through age.
He was speckled with barnacles,
fine rosettes of lime,
and infested
with tiny white sea-lice,
and underneath two or three
rags of green weed hung down.
While his gills were breathing in
the terrible oxygen
—the frightening gills,
fresh and crisp with blood,
that can cut so badly—
I thought of the coarse white flesh
packed in like feathers,
the big bones and the little bones,
the dramatic reds and blacks
of his shiny entrails,
and the pink swim-bladder
like a big peony.
I looked into his eyes
which were far larger than mine
but shallower, and yellowed,
the irises backed and packed
with tarnished tinfoil
seen through the lenses
of old scratched isinglass.
They shifted a little, but not
to return my stare.
—It was more like the tipping
of an object toward the light.
I admired his sullen face,
the mechanism of his jaw,
and then I saw
that from his lower lip
—if you could call it a lip—
grim, wet, and weaponlike,
hung five old pieces of fish-line,
or four and a wire leader
with the swivel still attached,
with all their five big hooks
grown firmly in his mouth.
A green line, frayed at the end
where he broke it, two heavier lines,
and a fine black thread
still crimped from the strain and snap
when it broke and he got away.
Like medals with their ribbons
fr ...
These are a series of poems written for a class I took as credit towards my creative writing certificate. They have been through series of rewrites and modifications, including a workshopping process
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5. CONTENTS
Three Shorts 3
Glendalough, at Iseult Gonne's Grave 4
The Blind 5
reed songs I-IV 7
Dark Pool 11
Flame or not 12
Jewel-box 13
The Zeiss 14
appeal to the dying 15
Three Red Things 16
9. 3
Three Shorts
I
Roadlake rushes to pours
its pools onto the pathways.
Mercury-mirrors dot them
imaging the trees' dark sway.
II
Dawnsong onesong a lonesong
of blackbird wren or thrush
note rises. Pipe-up to crescendo
at tree’s apices spring’s green-rush.
III
Onesong arises dawn’s aubade.
Two songs lonesong or more
sweet the air. An after-storm.
From the tree the bird soars.
10. 4
Glendalough, at Iseult Gonne's Grave
subside the rocks
archback
silica of bird leans into
a granite stylus
a grave bed
green sea-bed of flowering heads.
shatter of tree hacked-through/
windmills beside an sruthán geal
gold coins in-stream-glitter out to me.
a small a cloud there
her gulfstream ruffles my feathering (toll the …)
blood-thickener sloughs blood against.
let her eat the disease
a gelid-thaw
clysters the blooms
all that glisters is not white / and
not laden with small-griefs
11. 5
The Blind
1. Unleash The Skein
red thread the open wound
and from it the red rivulet
will drain into the metal dish
and curl into water
no more now
it is just a stitch
stitches
the wound gash drawn in and thread
dust of glass in the wound ground in
round the heel and spiral down into
blue glass pummelled beyond crystal
a useless moon dust
pounded to glass
the red thread
lets no light in
the shards are small
12. 6
2. And Loosen it
unleash and loosen the skein,
umbilical in red
the thread that will lead you into the city and where it began
amongst the blind
amongst the furies
where pain is pummelled to red dust
where pain is pounded to blue dust
dust lies on the deserted library
it lies in the threading of the shoe
and spirals down to the heel of
‘How beautiful are your feet with shoes, O prince's daughter!
the joints of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands
of a cunning workman.’ *
you are too far gone to let in the light and those are the worst words
words of desire
maybe.
* Song Of Solomon 1:7
13. 7
reed songs I-IV
I
whistle-in
sing the hollow-pipes
of bird-bone or leg-tube
jointed to
leech into soil's black trauma
a double-reed will always carry down
its muffled tune
from contort of leaf to nub of root
there is bone substance to
the fallen bough as
there is to the winged-bird
both perfume
a maerl of
barely encloses both
the feathered and
the not
a shell maybe –
14. 8
II
Euterpe, muse of lyric poetry
I can hear your double-flute's song
those reeds tremble even here as
An Doilin emblazes her corals from
red, reddish
to pink
to salmon pink
to warm peach and
eventually it stagnates to a sense of
middling yellow
a sickly kind of yellow
to brownish cream
The maerl is never bone white
15. 9
III
there is a horse there on the hill
a Connemara
She had tumbled down the stone walls in flight
in frenzy
the men caught her
amongst the strife the orange flame
the yellow strife
the white
white grey and cream : her
mane and tail is against the wall
the bone-beach is sometimes called Trá na Bpaistí,
a monument there
a famine grave is nearby
the maerl holds the names of the nameless dead
the places of their graves
and even here
here still -
Your twin reeds tremble a song
16. 10
IV
I’d rather it were a muse dangling above my head in her purple cloud
dress
than a crystal chandelier of gaudy pattern floating in the many-
coloured sky
a painted backdrop is between the vanished bookcase and wall
each breeze brings the noise of tea-cup-clatter a loud tea room
separator of light
I am scraping my bare foot on a bright tiger claw
and I am agitated down to my bruised flesh
give me the muse
the reed song
song of the bones
a hollow bone a
twin reeds’ tune
anything but this
noise
19. 13
Jewel-box
the claw
the egg
the jewel-box
blue-burnt through
(and through)
the glass shard remnant
- an opulence of sky
shell did not conceal
blue blue sky
or this feather dream
wind-wrought brought-down
its red-swollen out
down in the mud
a point in blue
burnt through
wind caresses white
secret-in
nor awaken to spring
I saw the claws
the hands coming
the frosted gloom
20. 14
The Zeiss
from that 13th moon you'd to fight for breath :
eyes , vagina, your lens was cold.
But then our shadow-plays were always red.
I awoke with the word musculature in my head -
the primitive Zeiss dilated
with the mathematical implements of your pornographies : meters ,
lenses,
colour-charts, grey spectrum-sheets,
and white -
all these rotated in your skull-disc, and I
spread wide as cut-fruit onto a plate-fallen
dilated
and captured you.
I wondered which of your screens I was playing on?
21. 15
appeal to the dying
I am working to a point that is always there
I turn and discern it in the heart of the mountain
it appears grey blue burnt ice as indigo
as almost black but not quite -
this centre of the circle I restlessly trundle is a compass poised
at that exact and irrefutable centre of my wheel and you found it
it is nothing :
it is a tiny hole scratched through white paper
it is a gordian-knot in the ring of rope
that will break a neck
it is the leaving from bodily-derangement
that you could not unhinge your skull from
you meander restlessly round its perimeter.
lorn /
from
lament /
and not
22. 16
Three Red Things
the three red things are:
a red umbrella with a black lace trim
spoke-shattered it belongs to my mother
does not match my abstract and faux
snaky blouson jacket
Alfred Schütze's, The Enigma of Evil
a memento-mori from his old library
its red cover is rain-glued-sodden
I bind myself to a tree
a shopping bag, berry-red
not much to say about it
it is the third red thing
and I am in the park
moulded to the body of a tree
its roots are moving beneath my feet
I am afraid it will tear up from the
soil's hungry drinking as
23. 17
form crystallises
and assumes its
almost shape
within the silica of
the holding-skin
beneath crystal swipe
and tungsten-lunge
into the exact point
and drain
then seep
from the vessel-encasement
not sustainer
until
form becomes
24. 18
............ A Stone Dress
Fossil 1.
press-to
drop-by-drop
raindrop-and-sinew
the whole woman
not tamp-in
onto the still-living-soil
a new shape
embed-in
the bone and the
living-sinew-of
the still-warm blood
slowly-so
and infinitely blue
the milk-flow from crystallising breast
a stone-dress
material as silk-soft
(as) caul or veil
can be sweet as silk or rain or
25. 19
blue
rain sinews against and into
chalice of womb.
half-into the wall
and often not
still
a lone bird night-sings and a
26. 20
A Tremor of Rain
Fossil 2.
tremor of rain runs liquidly down the bodice and gather
as gradual operation of hand-upon-hand hand-on-stone
make a pleat a stitch a fraying thread on bodice-sequinned
for silica-plinthing
27.
28. Acknowledgements
Thanks are due to the editors of the following publications where a
number of these poems first appeared: Bone Orchard Poetry, Burning
Bush II, CanCan, The Galway Review, and A New Ulster.
29.
30. Chris Murray is a City and Guilds Stone-cutter.
Her poetry is published in Ropes Magazine,
Crannóg Magazine, The Burning Bush Online
Revival Meeting (Issue 1), Carty's Poetry
Journal, Caper Literary Journal, CanCan
(WurminApfel), Bone Orchard Poetry, Women
Writers Women Books, Southword Literary
Journal, and the Diversity Blog (PIWWC, PEN
International Women Writers' Committee). Her
poem for three voices, Lament, was performed at
the 2012 Béal Festival, in Smock Alley Theatre,
Dublin.
She has reviewed poetry for Post (Mater Dei Institute), Poetry Ireland
and Writing.ie. Chris blogs at her own poetry-blog Poethead and at
Open Salon blogs. Chris is a member of the PEN International Women
Writers' Committee.
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