Small Fires

Love's Body

Happiness
Elements
Love's Body
My Discontent
Abandonment
A Woman in Her Thirties
in any case
Sleepwalking
In the Old Way
Corridor
Late Winter Snow

The Swan Brothers

The Messenger
In the Morning of Time
Immigrant
Francesca
The Snow Queen
The Swan Brothers

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"Haste is full of carefully wrought, surprisingly imagined poems. Vivid and intense, each one creates a geography as familiar as a lighted house on a snowy evening or a summer lightning storm. Bickmore invests her poetry with images of desire and loss, extravagance and longing, and reminds us how original and strange is the most daily of experiences." —Susan Elizabeth Howe, Professor of English, Brigham Young University

"Having lived beyond the obvious, Bickmore has matured and her poems have ripened. She is real, they are real. And brilliant. And moving beyond words." —Emma Lou Thayne, author, Things Happen: Poems of Survival

About the author
Lisa Orme Bickmore is a Ph.D. candidate in English and American literature at the University of Utah and teaches at Salt Lake Community College. She is the recipient of a Utah Arts Council poetry award; she lives in West Jordan, Utah, with her husband, Steve, and five children.


title page
Haste
Poems by Lisa Orme Bickmore

Signature Books
Salt Lake City
1994


copyright page
"But how late to be regretting all this, even bearing in mind
That all regret is late, too late! ——John Ashbery

Haste was printed on acid free paper
and meets the permanence of paper requirements of the
American Standard for Information Sciences.
This book was composed, printed, and bound in the United States.

© 1994 by Signature Books, Inc. All rights reserved.
Signature Books is a registered trademark of Signture Books, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bickmore, Lisa Orme
Haste : poems / by Lisa Orme Bickmore.
p. cm.
I. Title.

ISBN 1-56085-061-2
PS3552.1318H37 1994
811'.54—dc20 94-31753 CIP