The Coronary Garden: Poems

Ann Townsend

Sarabande Books, 2005 - Literary Criticism - 83 pages

"Ah to be the one for whom the love poems in this sexy, brainy, elegant book were written."--Linda Gregerson

The Coronary Garden is a collection braiding love and mortality. In "Love Poem, Unwritten," Townsend identifies a physical abnormality of the poet's heart as a figure for human love: fragile, vulnerable, our very imperfections opening us to connection and grace. Ann Townsend is the author of Dime Store Erotics (1998). She lives in Granville, Ohio.

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The title poem of Townsend's moving second collection (after Dime Store Erotics ) braids quotations from a 17th-century gardening treatise--a coronary garden produced flowers suitable for use in ...

CORONARY GARDEN

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The title poem of Townsend's moving second collection (after Dime Store Erotics ) braids quotations from a 17th-century gardening treatise--a coronary garden produced flowers suitable for use in ...

Contents

• The Coronary Garden: 3
• Matters of Beauty: 18
• Childless: 35
• Butane Kerosene Gasoline: 44
• Early Days: 64
• The Enclosure: 78

About the author

Ann Townsend is the author of Dime Store Erotics (1998). She is the recipient of a NEA Fellowship, an Individual Artist's grant from the Ohio Arts Council, and a Discovery Prize from The Nation. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies, including The Pushcart Prize XX, The New Young American Poets, American Poetry: The Next Generation, and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology. An Associate Professor of English at Denison University, she lives in Granville, Ohio.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Coronary Garden: Poems
• Author: Ann Townsend
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Sarabande Books, 2005
• ISBN: 1932511091, 9781932511093
• Length: 83 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / Women Authors; Poetry / American / General