Holding Our Own: The Selected Poetry of Ann Stanford
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Within a decade of her death, each of Ann Stanford's books had slipped out of print, and her final manuscript, completed just before she died, remained unpublished. Through the effort of two former students, poets Maxine Scates and David Trinidad, this creeping silence has finally ended with the publication of a major selected poems. Like her fellow Californian Robinson Jeffers, Stanford's poems are consumed by natural landscape and lost nature. Yet she is an urban poet, a poet of Los Angeles, a poet who, during her lifetime, published ten books, including poetry, criticism, a translation of The Bhagavad Gita, and the first major anthology of women's poetry.
"Of heat and orchards and sweet springing places"3Holding Her Own11The Blackberry Thicket23The Riders24Union Station26Small Garden27The Messenger28Above the Earth29Pandora30The Protestant32The Skyrocket34The Sleeping Princess35Metamorphosis36The Weathercock37The White Horse39Hidden Things41The Walnuts44By the Woods, Reading47Double Mirror48Memorial49In the Black Forest50The Fathers51Done With52The Given Child53Letter from Portugal56The Flood58Night Rain60The Beating61On the Way62The Committee64Dolly Hazlewood, Untitled66Philip Evergood, American Tragedy67Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom69On the Death of the President72The Speed of Planes74The Descent75In the Husk77The Organization of Space78In the Lenten Season80The Late Visitor81The Gift82Morning83Mirror84A Birthday85Night of Souls86Numbers87Going Away88To Her Spirit at the Winter Solstice89Weeds90Glimmerglass93Dreaming of Foxes94I Thought Back and95One April96Our Town97Libraries98Prophet100The Four Horsemen101Mr. D103Meat Wave104Holding Our Own105Danae108The Graeae113Medusa114Andromeda116Perseus117Despite All That121Watching the Break-Up122Down, Down124Unwinding the Glacier125At the Villa128The Pursuer129In the Garden131The Chase132On the Train133Incognito134Headquarters135Three136Outside137The Party138The Design139After Exile142The Turn143Listening to Color144Returning Once More147Waiting for Rain148Mountain Poems149Childhood152Dreaming the Garden154The Fountain170Mind171The Sword174The Weaver175The Bell177At the Vernal Equinox179The Old Couple180Goat Dancer184Crisis185The Woman on the Island186365 Poems187About the Author189About the Editors190
