On the Desire to Levitate
On the Desire to Levitate: Poems
Alison Powell
Copyright Date: 2014
Published by: Ohio University Press
Pages: 64
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On the Desire to Levitate
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On the Desire to Levitateis the first collection of poems by Alison Powell. This striking collection includes vivid, unflinching meditations on aging, mythology, poetry, and family. In tight, elegant lines that alternate between homage and elegy, these poems explore known subjects with a rebellious eye: a defeated Hercules and a bitter Eurydice, a sympathetic Lucifer, and generations of adolescent girls as mythical adventurers moving within a beloved but confining Midwest. Yet in Powell's skillful hands, hardship never overtakes: as judge Charles Hood writes, "There's often a delicious humor in this work, and always a deep and lasting integrity."Winner of the 2013 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize

eISBN: 978-0-8214-4491-7
Subjects: Language & Literature
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-viii)
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. ix-xii)
  3. On the Desire to Levitate
    On the Desire to Levitate (pp. 1-2)
  4. I.
    • Elegy for the Miner’s Canary
      Elegy for the Miner’s Canary (pp. 5-5)
    • Flyover Country
      Flyover Country (pp. 6-6)
    • Summer
      Summer (pp. 7-7)
    • Hiding and the Desire to Be Found
      Hiding and the Desire to Be Found (pp. 8-8)
    • Eminence
      Eminence (pp. 9-9)
    • Shangri-La
      Shangri-La (pp. 10-10)
    • Who Knew the Water
      Who Knew the Water (pp. 11-12)
    • Rogers Road
      Rogers Road (pp. 13-13)
    • Visitor
      Visitor (pp. 14-14)
    • In Your Teeth
      In Your Teeth (pp. 15-16)
    • Animals
      Animals (pp. 17-18)
  5. II.
    • The Fields
      The Fields (pp. 21-22)
    • Hylas
      Hylas (pp. 23-24)
    • The Murderer’s Reverie
      The Murderer’s Reverie (pp. 25-25)
    • Hercules Reflects on Victory
      Hercules Reflects on Victory (pp. 26-26)
    • Eurydice
      Eurydice (pp. 27-27)
    • Orpheus
      Orpheus (pp. 28-28)
    • The Fall
      The Fall (pp. 29-29)
    • After Paradise Lost
      After Paradise Lost (pp. 30-32)
  6. III.
    • Imagining Heaven
      Imagining Heaven (pp. 35-35)
    • Darling, at the Inn
      Darling, at the Inn (pp. 36-36)
    • Decorum: A Study
      Decorum: A Study (pp. 37-37)
    • Elegy
      Elegy (pp. 38-38)
    • The Attic
      The Attic (pp. 39-43)
    • Edema
      Edema (pp. 44-44)
    • Jeffersonville, Indiana, 1983
      Jeffersonville, Indiana, 1983 (pp. 45-45)
    • Florida
      Florida (pp. 46-48)
    • Lesson
      Lesson (pp. 49-50)
  7. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 51-52)