Keeping My Name
Keeping My Name bears the stamp of an assured poet already known in New Formalist circles for her work in meter and rhyme. With a distinctive blend of craft and deep feeling, clarity and subtle thought, Tufariello gives new resonance to the historical and mythic past and draws larger significance from contemporary life. Reflecting a particular interest in and compassion for the lives of women, past and present, the work's five sections offer a variety of repasts. One brings freshness and...
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Keeping My Name bears the stamp of an assured poet already known in New Formalist circles for her work in meter and rhyme. With a distinctive blend of craft and deep feeling, clarity and subtle thought, Tufariello gives new resonance to the historical and mythic past and draws larger significance from contemporary life. Reflecting a particular interest in and compassion for the lives of women, past and present, the work's five sections offer a variety of repasts. One brings freshness and immediacy to women of the Old and New Testaments. Another traces the dissolution of a marriage; a third, the experience -- rarely represented in poetry -- of infertility and its high-tech treatment. At center, counterpoising contemporary poems of love and grief, is a series of translations from Petrarch and other classic Italian love poets. Tufariello addresses loss and longing, yet discovers joy in everyday things -- a walrus being fed at an aquarium, a small girl dancing at a wedding, a basketball game on a city playground. Her warmth, tempered by wit, is unsentimental. Readers who appreciate well-made, accessible poems will find much to savor here.
Series editor's introductionFree time3February 18, 19434Elegy for Alice6Dana dancing8The walrus at Coney Island9Epitaph for a stray10Crossed wires11Chemist's daughter15Moving day16Two trees17Snow angel19Insomnia21Seasons of the moom22The mirror23Ghost children24The worst of it25Pentimento26Plot summary27Keeping my name28Cavalcanti's Belta di donna e di saccente core33Guinizelli's Al cor gentil ripara sempre amore34S'amor non e, che dunque e quel ch' io sento?36Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento37I di miei piu leggier che nesun cervo38Or ai fatto l'estremo di tua possa39Ite, rime dolenti, al duro sasso40Lorenzo Lotto's Annunciation43A proposal in the Cleveland Museum, winter 200044No angel46Rebekah I52Rebekah II53Mary Magdalene54The feast of tabernacles55Zero at the bone59The waiting room61Ultrasound62Fruitless63Useful advice64In glass66After all67Florida's flowers68First contact71The dream of extra room72Twenty weeks73This child76Useful advice, the sequel77Liana's song78First sight79
