Sleeping Late on Judgment Day

Poems

Jane Mayhall

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Alfred A. Knopf
15 December 2005

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

""My heart is bursting with homage as I / head off to a hostile eternity,"" writes Jane Mayhall, now eighty-five, who wrote most of these poems in an urgent outpouring over the last few years. From the decades-outdated subway token in the bottom of her shoulder bag, which calls forth earlier days in New York City, to the violin her father practiced among the pantry's jam jars in her Kentucky childhood, Mayhall plucks small treasures that bespeak her fierce devotion to life, with its clutter of memories and imperfections. In her tightly knotted, beautifully turned short poems, she elegizes a world not quite gone, and brings us into contact with some of her contemporaries, from Lincoln Kirstein to Theodore Roethke.

Chief among her cherished memories is her long bohemian marriage, which she recalls in a series of ravishing love poems to her late husband. In lines saturated with feeling she describes how she accommodates her grief at losing him and, as throughout this exquisite volume, how we must continue to greet life, in all its gorgeous strangeness.

By: Jane Mayhall
Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 145mm, Width: 235mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 175g
ISBN: 9780375710483
ISBN 10: 0375710485
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 15 December 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jane Mayhall was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1918 and attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina. She has taught at the New School for Social Research, Hofstra University, Morehead State University, and the Summer Writers' Workshop at Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky. Her fiction and poems have appeared in The Yale Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and other publications.

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