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| Genre/Form: | Poetry |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Oles, Carole. Waking stone. Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2006 (OCoLC)606524805 Online version: Oles, Carole. Waking stone. Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2006 (OCoLC)607804599 |
| Named Person: | Harriet Goodhue Hosmer; Harriet Goodhue Hosmer |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Carole Oles |
| ISBN: | 1557288259 9781557288257 |
| OCLC Number: | 66393048 |
| Description: | xi, 96 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | Invocation to Hatty -- Mother at her easel : a memory -- I misbehave : self-defenses -- I find my place : Mrs. Sedgwick's school -- I am lowered, I am raised -- The body forbidden -- That other river : the Mississippi -- More wildlife study -- Linkage -- From backyard studio, to Rome, 1852 -- Enroute to Rome, October, 1852 -- Finding my master -- My first child, and another daughter -- My first full-figure daughter -- On marriage, how many times must I tell you -- Preparing for dinner guests, mindful of Hatty -- Making money -- Rumor -- Astronomer Maria Mitchell meets Harriet Hosmer -- To Hatty on Easter Sunday, among spirits -- Beginning and ending with Mahler's Kindertotenlieder -- Her story, my daughter Beatrice. |
| Responsibility: | by Carole Simmons Oles. |
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"Oles has deftly, clearly, resolutely brought to light the story of this 19th century woman artist." -- Rosanna Warren "In this astounding and flawlessly structured book Oles has entered into a passionate dialogue with ... Hosmer." -- Richard Jackson "How often is a book of poems simultaneously inspiring, informative, fun, solid as marble, sensuous as flesh, tough-minded and downright beautiful? Waking Stone is all those things.... When I started, I couldn't stop--the force of these poems blew me away." -- Alicia Ostriker "How often is a book of poems simultaneously inspiring, informative, fun, solid as marble, sensuous as flesh, tough-minded and downright beautiful? Waking Stone is all those things. . . . When I started, I couldn't stop--the force of these poems blew me away." --Alicia Ostriker, author of No Heaven "In this astounding and flawlessly structured book Oles has entered into a passionate dialogue with . . . Hosmer." --Richard Jackson, author of Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems "Oles has deftly, clearly, resolutely brought to light the story of this 19th century woman artist." --Rosanna Warren, author of Departure: Poems How often is a book of poems simultaneously inspiring, informative, fun, solid as marble, sensuous as flesh, tough-minded and downright beautiful? Waking Stone is all those things. . . . When I started, I couldn t stopthe force of these poems blew me away. Alicia Ostriker, author of No Heaven In this astounding and flawlessly structured book Oles has entered into a passionate dialogue with . . . Hosmer. Richard Jackson, author of Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems Oles has deftly, clearly, resolutely brought to light the story of this 19th century woman artist. Rosanna Warren, author of Departure: Poems " Read more...
