The Age of the Flower

Helga Sandburg

• Publisher: The Kent State University Press
• Year: 1994
• Print ISBN:
  9780873385015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781612779348
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism Theory
• Index: Literature

This collection of personal and autobiographical poems is written by Helga Sandburg, daughter of the poet, Carl Sandburg. It contains a quartet of poems written after the death of her husband, as well as work inspired by the themes of motherhood, music, nature, and travel.

Contents

Preface

The Age of the Flower

All Praise to the Virtue Purity

The Middle of Time

In My Room Your Red Roses Are Unbeautifully Dying

The Childe to the Tower Came

The Unclasping

On War

I Am Walking through Rooms

Close the Door Quietly

Visit

Bravery

Let Us Suffer Alone, Lover

The Ballad of Woman

The Giraffe

Dover Beach the Second

The Importance of Mirrors

Cantata for Two Lovers

Airmail in Summer

Woman

Am I Waiting for a Knock upon the Door?

Menelaus, Clytemnestra, and So Forth

Sonnet about Our Neighbor’s Wife

My Thief

I’m Trying to Learn How to Die

Rilke, You Gave God Back to Me

Lyric

Sometimes I Feel the Envious Dead Crowd Near

The Cancer

Murder on the Table Top

It Is April!

A Short Alarming History at the Beginning of the World Regarding Songbirds

Children of God

Three Serpents in a Well in a Field

Sin

Destiny

The Horsemen

The Teenagers

The Cabin

Caging the Pipsissewa

The Romance of the Responsible Mouse in Two Chapters

The Calf of the Black Cow

The Accident

A Case of Bad Taste

The Silence

Song for a Poetess Done In by a Bunch of Red Blooms

On Returning to Egypt and Waking at the Ruins of the Continental Savoy Hotel After Visiting Cairo’s Museum and Giza the Day Before and in the Evening Attending the “Sound and Light” Spectacle Which Was in Incomprehensible French Although English Had Been Promised

The Visitor

For a Father

At Twenty

Someone Should Say It to You, Daughter

Song for Sascha

On Leaving My Six-day-old Grandson, Birch

Freed

Amen

To a Step-Grandson One Hour of Age

Sonnet about My Daughter among the Flowers

From in the Dream

The Invisible Animals

Country People Are Less Alone than Others

Poems to the Dog, Gustav

The Garden

The Fable of the Dog and the Possum

In T...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• The Age of the Flower
• All Praise to the Virtue Purity
• The Middle of Time
• In My Room Your Red Roses Are Unbeautifully Dying
• The Childe to the Tower Came
• The Unclasping
• On War
• I Am Walking through Rooms
• Close the Door Quietly
• Visit
• Bravery
• Let Us Suffer Alone, Lover
• The Ballad of Woman
• The Giraffe
• Dover Beach the Second
• The Importance of Mirrors
• Cantata for Two Lovers
• Airmail in Summer
• Woman
• Am I Waiting for a Knock upon the Door?
• Menelaus, Clytemnestra, and So Forth
• Sonnet about Our Neighbor’s Wife
• My Thief
• I’m Trying to Learn How to Die
• Rilke, You Gave God Back to Me
• Lyric
• Sometimes I Feel the Envious Dead Crowd Near
• The Cancer
• Murder on the Table Top
• It Is April!
• A Short Alarming History at the Beginning of the World Regarding Songbirds
• Children of God
• Three Serpents in a Well in a Field
• Sin
• Destiny
• The Horsemen
• The Teenagers
• The Cabin
• Caging the Pipsissewa
• The Romance of the Responsible Mouse in Two Chapters
• The Calf of the Black Cow
• The Accident
• A Case of Bad Taste
• The Silence
• Song for a Poetess Done In by a Bunch of Red Blooms
• On Returning to Egypt and Waking at the Ruins of the Continental Savoy Hotel After Visiting Cairo’s Museum and Giza the Day Before and in the Evening Attending the “Sound and Light” Spectacle Which Was in Incomprehensible French Although English Had Been Promised
• The Visitor
• For a Father
• At Twenty
• Someone Should Say It to You, Daughter
• Song for Sascha
• On Leaving My Six-day-old Grandson, Birch
• Freed
• Amen
• To a Step-Grandson One Hour of Age
• Sonnet about My Daughter among the Flowers
• From in the Dream
• The Invisible Animals
• Country People Are Less Alone than Others
• Poems to the Dog, Gustav
• The Garden
• The Fable of the Dog and the Possum
• In Time
• Night Riders
• The Clown Prince
• Walking the Dog
• Eulogy for a Crow
• Your Dog
• The Cat and the Chameleon
• On Transplanting Two Rootbound Monarda Fistulosa and One Cushion Spurge
• Psalm to a Guinea Pig Less than One Day Old
• The Killer
• Karma
• To a Dog Whose Mistress Is in Europe for a Month
• The Rape of the Garden
• The Message
• The Stroke
• Poem for My Husband on His Birthday Which He Didn’t Quite Make
• A Pure Act
• Widow’s Sonnet
• Widow’s Sonnet #2
• The Widow’s Lover
• Widow’s Elegy
• Praise with a Lament