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Mrs. Ramsay's Knee

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Idris Anderson
2008
Published by: Utah State University Press
Series: Swenson Poetry Award
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Volume 12 in the Swenson Poetry Award Series, Mrs. Ramsay's Knee offers fresh and elegant poems by Idris anderson, many of them ekphrastic considerations of visual works of art. Among her subjects are paintings by Rembrandt, Rousseau, Pollock, and Chagall, yet she equally explores a set of news photos from the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title page, Copyright

Contents

pp. ix-x

Acknowledgments

pp. xi

Foreword

pp. xiii-xiv

Prologue

COMET

pp. 3

Recollection of Tranquility

pp. 5-21

The French Bed

pp. 7

Recollection of Tranquility

pp. 8-9

Bridges of Giverny

pp. 10

Kehaya House

pp. 11-12

Pumpkin Farm, Half Moon Bay

pp. 13-14

Fugitive Effects

pp. 15

The Temple of Poseidon

pp. 16-17

Marsyas

pp. 18-20

Fathers

pp. 21

Front Page New York Times

pp. 23-49

Roses on the Ceiling

pp. 51-67

Dürer’s Jerome

pp. 53-54

Roses on the Ceiling

pp. 55-56

Marble Boy

pp. 57-58

Greek Stones

pp. 59-60

Maiano

pp. 61

Christine, Daughter of Immigrants

pp. 62

The Moth

pp. 63

The Bream

pp. 64-65

Kayaks

pp. 66-67

Pretty Rooms

pp. 69-76

1. The Mower

pp. 71

2. TRIO

pp. 71

3. Anniversary

pp. 72

4 . ROUSSEAU

pp. 72

5. At Night on the Terrace, Fiesole

pp. 73

6. Fourth of July

pp. 74

7. THAT HAT

pp. 74

8. The Turtle

pp. 75

9. CARAVAGGIO

pp. 75

10. Conscience

pp. 76

11. F I G

pp. 76

The Red Coat

pp. 77-96

Lilies

pp. 79

On Throwing a Fish in the Well

pp. 80-81

Two at the Dock

pp. 82

Goat Song

pp. 83-85

The Red Coat

pp. 86

Above the Town

pp. 87-88

The Marsh

pp. 89-91

The Glider

pp. 92-93

No. 1

pp. 94

On a Bus to the Airport, Colorado

pp. 95-96

Epilogue

FACE

pp. 97-98

Notes

pp. 99-100

About the Author

pp. 101

The May Swenson Poetry Award

pp. 102
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