Go Figure
About this book
In Go Figure, Carol Moldaw demonstrates an incandescent mastery of figuration in its many forms. As the title suggests, these poems invite readers to draw their own conclusions. Observing, inquiring, and delving, Moldaw brings the intertwined strands of life and art to light at their most intimate. A wife-muse who interrogates the role, a mother hard-pressed by motherhood, a daughter whose own mother's decline causes her to probe their connection, and an artist with an exacting eye and ear who contemplates the creative mysteries, Moldaw is driven to understand and articulate the self in all its manifestations. Like a skater cutting first lines in ice, Moldaw displays lyric immediacy and lyric expanse in her poems with an unswerving command. Complex and inviting, with deft wit, the poems engage public and private life and voice a necessary and resounding affirmation of the feminine and of language emerging through silence.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Visiting the River After Having Moved Away
- On Being Mused Upon
- Go Figure
- Painter and Model (I)
- Painter and Model (II)
- Struck Dumb
- Agra, December 2008
- Mumtaz and Jahan
- Raccoons
- Time Zones
- Family Values
- Lessons
- Argument
- Plover
- Northern California
- Night Piece
- Reverberance
- Shoe Box
- Scales
- Not a Clue
- Mindfulness Training in La Jolla
- You Have the Tools, Use Them
- Every Moment
- From the Roof Deck
- Olmec
- Arthritis
- Stuttgart, 1971
- On the Cusp
- Nature Hates a Void
- My Mother Tells Me How It Works
- The Busker
- Stuttgart Revisited
- Particles
- Radical Acceptance
- FaceTime
- Game Face
- Meditation on the Veranda
- Makeup
- 873 Beacon
- Audubon Circle
- Dinner Guests
- Road Trip to Planned Parenthood
- Richter Scale
- Apologia
- Scavengers
- First Days at the Conservancy
- Keisaku Palm
- Meditation in the Open-Air Garage
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
