Necessary Light: Poems of Patricia Fargnoli Book

Contents

Foreword by Mary Oliver....................ix
How This Poet Thinks....................3
Hopper's Paintings....................5
Landscape in Blue and Bronze....................6
From Eleven Years Later....................7
Breaking Silence-For My Son....................8
Naming My Daughter....................9
Going....................10
Miniature....................11
Sea Watchers....................12
From a Rented Cottage by Winnisquam in Rain....................13
At the Mystic Aquarium....................15
Gifts....................16
Evensong....................17
The Sleepers....................18
The Decision....................20
Nightwork....................21
Sag Harbor Sundown....................22
Crossing the Sound....................23
Pemaquid Beach After a Week Alone....................24
On Hearing of the Sudden Death of a Friend....................25
At the Enosberg Falls Cemetery....................26
Lamentation....................27
Lightning Spreads Out Across the Water....................28
Watching Light in the Field....................30
In the Winter of My Sixtieth Year....................33
When I Wake to a Bedroom Filled with Blue Lights....................35
In the City Without a Name....................37
Weed in Drought....................39
Location....................41
In the Basement of the First Church....................42
From the Blue Room at the Colony....................44
Visiting Frost's Grave....................45
Boundaries....................47
Winter Sky over Cheshire County, New Hampshire....................49
Starry Night....................50
Fall Garden and the Weather Coming In....................51
Invocation....................52
The Reading: University College, Galway....................54
Near Galway....................56
Dublin Beggar....................57
Pilot Glasses....................58
Roofmen....................60
Naming....................61
Anniversaries....................62
Still Water....................64
Letter from Cranberry Island....................65
Acknowledgments....................66
About the Author....................67
The May Swenson Poetry Award....................68