To Embroider the Ground with Prayer 1st Edition by Teresa J Scollon ISBN 0814336213 9780814336212

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ISBN 10: 0814336213

ISBN 13: 9780814336212 

Author: Teresa J. Scollon 

A beautiful meditation on grief, memory, and the seasons of life.

To Embroider the Ground with Prayer is a portrait of poet Teresa J. Scollon’s several worlds, as she accompanies her father through his illness and death and records the richness of family and community life in her Michigan town. These poems enjoy reverence and irreverence in equal measure as grief appears side by side with playfulness and humor. Scollon employs a wide range of poetic styles and voices: elegies, narratives, and persona poems are organized in recursive circles that evoke family, village, local characters, and the author’s adult life beyond her hometown.

The collection begins with personal history and is rooted in a regional voice and focus, but Scollon skillfully transforms her experiences into larger concerns that resonate deeply and universally. Readers will get to know Scollon’s father, in fragile health but still so vital to those around him; trace Scollon’s many paths into and out of grief; and follow her travels as she confronts the pull of memory and once again forges her way in the external world. Throughout, Scollon records her understanding with fidelity, clarity, and reverence for story, and finds beauty in small everyday acts of devotion, patience, and humility. As Scollon writes, “To capture story is one way of giving thanks, of paying attention, to know where we are.”

Although this is her first full-length collection, Scollon’s stirring work is situated in the tradition of American poetry that includes the likes of Ruth Stone, Wendell Berry, Ted Kooser, James Wright, Carl Sandberg, and Edgar Lee Masters. Readers interested in contemporary poetry will be grateful for this profound collection.

Table of contents:

1. The Invitation

2. Drought Year

3. Mid-Life, I’m Lost

4. Reciprocity

5. Autobiography: Falling

6. Family Music

7. The Yoga Master at the Party

8. Catechism

9. July Fourth

10. Friday Nights the Whole Town Goes to the Basketball Game

11. John’s a Teacher

12. Doc Tells a Story on Horse Piss Wilson

13. Goodbye to Dwight Lipke

14. Death and the Photocopier

15. Exile

16. Grief in the Morning

17. Conference Room in Bloomington, Minnesota

18. The Old Horse

19. Pigeon Lady

20. New Year’s Day, Winslow Beach, Maine

21. A Meeting with the Game Wardens

22. Summer Solstice in Black River Falls

23. Little Boat

24. How My Mother Loves Flowers

25. Three A.M.: Prelude

26. What Opens

27. Untitled

28. Poem to My Brothers and Sisters

29. The View from Flight 616

30. The Moon

31. While I Stood in Obedient Line According to the Dictates of Another Round-Trip Ticket

32. Commerce

33. The-First-Bob-Ever Handles a Middle East Situation

34. Halloween at Gross’s Meat Market

35. A Visit

36. The Last Cat

37. At the Crematory

38. The Widow Talks about Black Holes

39. Everything’s In Motion

40. Mitchell’s Story

41. Dad Hides His Shakiness by Telling a Story

42. Caesura

43. Dubrovnik

44. Nine

45. Words, Poems

46. Across the Tracks

47. The Garden

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