Venera poems - Rogoff, Jay (Louisiana State University Press, 2014)
Praise for Jay Rogoff""[Rogoff's] poetry takes a visible art of movement and translates the feelings it evokes and the history it records into delicate words ... But Rogoff also has an amazing knack for the humor in humanity, as a slew of death-defying poems demonstrates.""--Andrew Burstein, The Baton Rouge Advocate""Quite simply, I love the gravitational, poetic pull of Rogoff 's work.""--Ren?e E. D'Aoust, Notre Dame ReviewThe poems in Jay Rogoff's Venera explore varieties of love, both sacred and profane, by drawing from the natural world, personal intima
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Cover; Contents; 1) ONLY CHILD; Courtship at Isenheim; A Son For My Ex!; The Outer Banks; No Dream; The Kindergarten Heart; The Doors of Siena; Gingkos; Redemption Center; Practicing; Barbara; For Malcolm in Carolina; Night Light; The Porch; Adirondack Scenic; Butterfly Effect; Translations; Dazzle; Intercourse; Orienting; Mother and Child; Life Sentence; Dirty Linen; Only Child; Laughter; 2) VENERA; The Reader; The Mother; The Whore; The Light; The Window; The Daughter; The Door; The Vessel; The Virgin; The Sister; The Field; The Ark; The Queen; The Handmaid; The Soul; The House; The Earth
The FountainThe Garden; The Singer; The Bride; The Mirror; The Table; The Lover; Acknowledgments