Acclaimed poet George Ella Lyon returns with a brilliant new collection that traces the arc of a woman's life from girlhood to mature womanhood. In answer to the first poem, "Little Girl Who Knows Too Much," Lyon embarks on a journey from a child who was silenced to "Some Big Loud Woman" who claims the right to a voice. Along the way she meets allies and guides including Dickinson, Woolf, Mary Travers, Grace Paley, and the giver of dreams. As sailors once navigated by the stars, so Lyon navigates by these luminaries. They are not distant, though. Their light is always near.
Alternately witty, tender, shocking, and visionary, Back to the Light reveals the reunion of body and spirit, truth and story. In the process, it demonstrates the power of poetry to liberate and to heal.
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The University Press of KentuckyYear
2021Print ISBN
9780813181158
9780813181189
eBook ISBN
9780813181165
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Little Girl Who Knows Too Much
- “One Way to Look at Your Life Is to Ask ‘What Have I Done with My Breath?’”
- Body Speaks
- Out with It
- Trapdoor
- Debut
- Wait, Weight
- Thank You, Eric Andersen
- Wings
- About the Journey
- She’s
- Pre-Parenthood
- Receiving
- Stuff
- Pillow Talk
- The Great Mother Says Growl
- Writer
- Who and How
- First Memory: Going to St. Ives
- Stone Brought Home from the River Ouse
- March 28, 1941
- Fallingwater
- A Briefing
- How Mean Poem Does
- Meantime
- An Exchange
- Mean Temperature or A Lesson by Degrees
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at Mean Poem
- Fundamentals of Singing
- Why I Fell at the Folger Shakespeare Library
- Some Big Loud Woman
- Mary
- She Sings
- “Let Us Go Forth with Fear and Courage and Rage to Save the World.”
- Old Folk @ the Grocery
- After the Wake
- Possibilities
- Breaking
- Three Years On
- Back to the Light
- Psalm
- The Meadow Does Not Know
- When
- More
- Bodywork
- World Tree
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- About the Author
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