Word: kiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...KISS IN SPACE By Mary Jo Salter Knopf...
...book is divided into three parts: A Jewel in the World, Alternating Currents and A Kiss in Space. The book crescendoes to its center, the poems becoming more and more complex and more demanding. The center part, alternating Currents, is actually a single longer poem. In it we see Helen Keller and her teacher, Sherlock Homes and Dr. Watson, Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Watson. Among these pairs run parallels, threads that wind through all three stories...
...book ends with the title poem," A Kiss in Space." We can see how this piece grew from a newspaper clipping about two cosmonauts, one gently kissing the other's cheek in zero gravity. As they return from space, we return from the book, with a felt promise that everything around us has meaning, connections, links. And this new perception leads us back to a new reality, back to "Whatever Earth has become...
...book is divided into three parts: A Jewel in the World, Alternating Currents and A Kiss in Space. The book crescendoes to its center, the poems becoming more and more complex and more demanding. The center part, Alternating Currents, is actually a single longer poem. In it we see Helen Keller and her teacher, Sherlock Homes and Dr. Watson, Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Watson. Among these pairs run parallels, threads that wind through all three stories...
...just wanted to make sure that I'm okay!" Jackie relays to us. Of course. Jackie's mom is now holding up a sizable chunk of traffic and the honking horns have reached a crescendo. Mother and daughter exchange a parting kiss, and the Pathfinder takes off into the night...