The dream that is forgotten. The Cypress trees in Croatia -- Report from Bosnia : "Hair" performed in Sarajevo -- The American insomniac buys lipstick in Warsaw, 1950 -- Poland -- Fire and ice -- Cafe de Paris : Geneva, Switzerland -- Pictures of the floating world : New York City, June, 2001 -- NYC to Poughkeepsie : the man on the train -- The dead -- Inside the crater -- Transplant -- Six days : a creation myth -- Scar -- Trying to get it right -- Sequence : the artist's notebook -- The dream of Maine -- Milan, Ohio -- Fashion accessories for the seven deadly sins -- Fog made of iron -- Anonymous afternoon -- The far country -- Mount Fuji -- All that we cannot name -- The atheist -- Waiting for the annunciation -- The modern woman imagine the life of Mary Magdalene -- Life cycles of clouds -- The immigrants in Slavic Village : Cleveland, 1955 -- Family tree -- Drawing : in the evening, 1991 -- The theory of everything -- Blue -- The water -- Gravity and God -- A kiss is just a kiss -- At 68, my mother sees her first foreign film -- Thirst -- In the midst of dreams -- The muted breath of early spring -- On the first anniversary of his death, I dream of my father -- The dream that is forgotten.
Summary:
"The poems in this powerful new collection explore the history of conflict and resilience--whether it occurs during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the Balkan wars in Bosnia and Croatia, or within the intimate tableaux of a family's dissonance. Weaving poems into three distinct sections, Linda Nemec Foster pays close attention to not only what divides us, but also to what can heal and redeem our common journey: an artist's notebook; the imagined life of Mary Magdalene; a fascination with Mount Fuji; a mother's obsession with vintage movie stars; a dead father's love. The Blue Divide resonates with the landscape of the world and the landscape of the heart." -- Provided by publisher.
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