A Garden in Kentucky

In this collection Jane Gentry evokes, in images as haunting as the Kentucky landscape, a garden thriving with the flowers of memory, a physical world that reflects a realm of transcendence. Cosmic harmony reveals itself in the "ciphers" of roots and worms, in a piece of blue-willow china - "a blaze of balance, of wholeness" - that survives a fire in which a lonely, tormented cousin died. Like John Donne and Elizabeth Bishop, Gentry finds beauty, grandeur, and the suggestion of immortality in the smallest, most evanescent of details. A mother's clothes. Scents. Textures. The play of moonlight on rock. The chirp of crickets. A faded tintype of a great-grandfather's dog. The wedding of a drum majorette. A glimpse caught through an open door of a naked woman ironing. A scarecrow. The smell of Bible leather. Laundry drying on a clothesline. Stark, lovely, elegiac, gently surreal, Gentry's poems resonate and echo in the vast spaces of the heart. A Garden in Kentucky is a place of mystery, terror, beauty, and wonder, a garden to which readers will find themselves returning again and again.

A Garden in Kentucky	p. 3
The Drum Majorette Marries at Calvary Baptist	p. 4
Grandfather Lights the Gas Stove	p. 5
Maugie's Heaven	p. 6
Aunt Lucy	p. 7
Great-Grandfather's Dog, High, on a Tintype	p. 8
The Old Place, 1949	p. 9
Washing Sheets in July	p. 10
Teddy	p. 11
For My Father	p. 12
Thinking of Charlie B. on July 4	p. 15
Snow in the Cemetery	p. 16
My Mother's Clothes	p. 17
Tasks	p. 18
Presences	p. 19
A Photograph of Hollins Abroaders Before the Caryatids	p. 23
Life, June, 1944, Featuring the Bayeux Tapestry	p. 24
The Cricket in the Elevator Shaft	p. 25
A Moment in the Dark	p. 26
For H., Resolved into a Moth While Watching Television in the Next Room	p. 27
Hound	p. 28
Liberty Above New Haven: The Statue on East Rock	p. 29
Ten Years Ago You Left and Now We Take a Walk Together	p. 30
Scarecrow	p. 31
Blizzard	p. 32
Moving	p. 33
Your Vacation	p. 34
Susannah	p. 35
Susannah's Bones	p. 38
St. Lucy the Housekeeper	p. 39
Zero	p. 40
Things That Fly Overhead at Lake Malone	p. 41
Leaving Lucy, September, 1990	p. 42
In a Chinese Landscape	p. 44
Two Flowers for My Father	p. 45
On a Day of Beautiful Clouds	p. 46
Telemakhos at Festival Market Thinks of His Father	p. 49
Eleuthera	p. 50
Flood	p. 51
Eros	p. 52
In the Darkness	p. 53
By the Sea: The Dream of the Body	p. 54
Epiphany, 1992	p. 56
Janus	p. 57
The Whale	p. 58
On a Perfect Day	p. 59
A Glimpse	p. 60
In the Kroger: For Jim, His Daughter Dead in a Wreck	p. 61
The Sudden Appearance of Love	p. 62
By Dark	p. 63
Aubade	p. 64
February 23, in the Cemetery	p. 65
Exercise in the Cemetery	p. 66
Heike's Window at Nightfall, from Versailles Cemetery	p. 67
The Locust	p. 68
In the Moment of My Death: For My Father	p. 69
Hungry Fire	p. 70
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