Necessary Light
Necessary Light
Patricia Fargnoli
foreword by Mary Oliver
Series: Swenson Poetry Award
Copyright Date: 1999
Published by: University Press of Colorado,
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc
Pages: 80
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46nrvc
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Necessary Light
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Winner of the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award, Patricia Fargnoli has also received the Robert Frost Literary Award, a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony, has been in residences many times at the Dorset Writers Colony, and has received several other awards for her poetry. Her work has been published in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and many other literary journals.

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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. vii-viii)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.2
  3. FOREWORD
    FOREWORD (pp. ix-xii)
    Mary Oliver
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.3

    Patricia Fargnoli, in a poem late in this collection, identifies herself (if I may take the liberty of assuming a correspondence between author and speaker) as being in the winter of her sixtieth year. Here, then, is a rarity that is close to an astonishment. For the authors of first books of poetry—and they are each year in the hundreds—are almost all young, and they have almost all of them risen through the same soil: workshops, MFA programs, initial life experiences. These beginning writers are skillful and hopeful; we are happy to praise their promise, their new voices,...

  4. ONE
    • HOW THIS POET THINKS
      HOW THIS POET THINKS (pp. 3-4)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.4
    • HOPPER’S PAINTINGS
      HOPPER’S PAINTINGS (pp. 5-5)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.5
    • LANDSCAPE IN BLUE AND BRONZE
      LANDSCAPE IN BLUE AND BRONZE (pp. 6-6)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.6
    • FROM ELEVEN YEARS LATER
      FROM ELEVEN YEARS LATER (pp. 7-7)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.7
    • BREAKING SILENCE—FOR MY SON
      BREAKING SILENCE—FOR MY SON (pp. 8-8)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.8
    • NAMING MY DAUGHTER
      NAMING MY DAUGHTER (pp. 9-9)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.9
    • GOING
      GOING (pp. 10-10)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.10
    • MINIATURE
      MINIATURE (pp. 11-11)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.11
    • SEA WATCHERS
      SEA WATCHERS (pp. 12-12)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.12
    • FROM A RENTED COTTAGE BY WINNISQUAM IN RAIN
      FROM A RENTED COTTAGE BY WINNISQUAM IN RAIN (pp. 13-14)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.13
    • AT THE MYSTIC AQUARIUM
      AT THE MYSTIC AQUARIUM (pp. 15-15)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.14
    • GIFTS
      GIFTS (pp. 16-16)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.15
    • EVENSONG
      EVENSONG (pp. 17-17)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.16
    • THE SLEEPERS
      THE SLEEPERS (pp. 18-19)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.17
    • THE DECISION
      THE DECISION (pp. 20-20)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.18
    • NIGHTWORK
      NIGHTWORK (pp. 21-21)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.19
    • SAG HARBOR SUNDOWN
      SAG HARBOR SUNDOWN (pp. 22-22)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.20
    • CROSSING THE SOUND
      CROSSING THE SOUND (pp. 23-23)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.21
    • PEMAQUID BEACH AFTER A WEEK ALONE
      PEMAQUID BEACH AFTER A WEEK ALONE (pp. 24-24)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.22
    • ON HEARING OF THE SUDDEN DEATH OF A FRIEND
      ON HEARING OF THE SUDDEN DEATH OF A FRIEND (pp. 25-25)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.23
    • AT THE ENOSBERG FALLS CEMETERY
      AT THE ENOSBERG FALLS CEMETERY (pp. 26-26)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.24
    • LAMENTATION
      LAMENTATION (pp. 27-27)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.25
    • LIGHTNING SPREADS OUT ACROSS THE WATER
      LIGHTNING SPREADS OUT ACROSS THE WATER (pp. 28-29)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.26
    • WATCHING LIGHT IN THE FIELD
      WATCHING LIGHT IN THE FIELD (pp. 30-30)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.27
  5. TWO
    • IN THE WINTER OF MY SIXTIETH YEAR
      IN THE WINTER OF MY SIXTIETH YEAR (pp. 33-34)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.28
    • WHEN I WAKE TO A BEDROOM FILLED WITH BLUE LIGHTS
      WHEN I WAKE TO A BEDROOM FILLED WITH BLUE LIGHTS (pp. 35-36)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.29
    • IN THE CITY WITHOUT A NAME
      IN THE CITY WITHOUT A NAME (pp. 37-38)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.30
    • WEED IN DROUGHT
      WEED IN DROUGHT (pp. 39-40)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.31
    • LOCATION
      LOCATION (pp. 41-41)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.32
    • IN THE BASEMENT OF THE FIRST CHURCH
      IN THE BASEMENT OF THE FIRST CHURCH (pp. 42-43)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.33
    • FROM THE BLUE ROOM AT THE COLONY
      FROM THE BLUE ROOM AT THE COLONY (pp. 44-44)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.34
    • VISITING FROST’S GRAVE
      VISITING FROST’S GRAVE (pp. 45-46)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.35
    • BOUNDARIES
      BOUNDARIES (pp. 47-48)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.36
    • WINTER SKY OVER CHESHIRE COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE
      WINTER SKY OVER CHESHIRE COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE (pp. 49-49)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.37
    • STARRY NIGHT
      STARRY NIGHT (pp. 50-50)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.38
    • FALL GARDEN AND THE WEATHER COMING IN
      FALL GARDEN AND THE WEATHER COMING IN (pp. 51-51)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.39
    • INVOCATION
      INVOCATION (pp. 52-53)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.40
    • THE READING: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GALWAY
      THE READING: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GALWAY (pp. 54-55)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.41
    • NEAR GALWAY
      NEAR GALWAY (pp. 56-56)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.42
    • DUBLIN BEGGAR
      DUBLIN BEGGAR (pp. 57-57)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.43
    • PILOT GLASSES
      PILOT GLASSES (pp. 58-59)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.44
    • ROOFMEN
      ROOFMEN (pp. 60-60)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.45
    • NAMING
      NAMING (pp. 61-61)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.46
    • ANNIVERSARIES
      ANNIVERSARIES (pp. 62-63)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.47
    • STILL WATER
      STILL WATER (pp. 64-64)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.48
    • LETTER FROM CRANBERRY ISLAND
      LETTER FROM CRANBERRY ISLAND (pp. 65-65)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.49
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pp. 66-66)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.50
  7. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    ABOUT THE AUTHOR (pp. 67-67)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.51
  8. THE MAY SWENSON POETRY AWARD
    THE MAY SWENSON POETRY AWARD (pp. 68-68)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.52
  9. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 69-69)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nrvc.53