Stairway To Heaven Deming Alison Hawthorne by Deming, Alison Hawthorne 9780143108856, 9781101992128, 0143108859, 1101992123 instant download after payment.

"A new collection from a poet who "writes with scrupulous and merciful passion about every kind of relatedness--family, place, politics, and wildlife" (W.S. Piero) In her fifth book of poems, Stairway to Heaven, Alison Hawthorne Deming explores dimensions of grief and renewal after losing her brother and mother. Grounded in her communion with nature and place, she finds even in Death Valley, that most stark of landscapes, a spirit of inventiveness that animates the ground we walk on. From the cave art of Chauvet to the futuristic habitat of Biosphere 2, that inventiveness becomes consolation for losses in family and nature, a means to build again a sense of self and world in the face of devastating loss"--;Primordial soup -- The mirror -- The toothbrush -- Stairway to heaven -- Cartoon -- Cutter -- Provincetown -- All souls -- The complex -- Chauvet -- What the desert is thinking -- Questions for a Saguaro -- Reading palms -- Rillito -- In praise of a nameless place -- What continues -- The laughter of animals -- Some bugs -- Mosquitos -- The international motel -- Walking with Michael and Jim in the blackout -- This is not the land you remember -- The drowned man -- Cento of the silver darlings -- Castalia -- Dark harbour -- Ballad of the dark harbour chev -- The luminous mother -- The white cap -- Let the names be our hymn -- Homeland security -- Resurrection -- Biosphere 2: Theory of art -- Golden pomegranate -- Afterlife -- Death valley sequence.