Visiting Rites

The description for this book, Visiting Rites, will be forthcoming. Originally published in 1982. The **Princeton Legacy Library** uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. From an award-winning poet, a poignant collection that wrestles with anxiety, boredom, fear, and griefVisiting Rites was published to critical acclaim in 1982 and was a finalist for the National Book Award the following year. This Princeton Legacy Library edition of Phyllis Janowitz's mesmerizing collection expands on themes of isolation and identity so familiar to her readers with intricately woven poems about the rituals of aging, communion, and confining cultural roles. Tempered with vulnerability, empathy, and uncommon humor, Visiting Rites is an invigorating reflection on longing, love, rejection, and the heartbreak that ennobles us.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Contents Acknowledgments 1 Case Mrs. Lucky The Apple Tree and Mrs. Lucky Enter Winter Together Compensations Games and Refrains of Children Letitia and Prue Visiting Rites The Grandmothers are Getting Younger The Soul has no Morality 2 Promises Music of Stars and Wheels The Contagious Hospital Home The Party Tone Poem for the Spring of the Year Rejects Facts and Figures Fisherman’s Wife The Fisherman Fisherman’s Wife #2 Minuet in a Minor Key Electronic Capriccio for Solo Electron 3 Dry Soup Liberty Baptism at Stow Lake Cygnet Film Cells Waiting for Father in Pawling, N. Y. Solitude Synechdoche by the Beautiful Sea Jitters Mendota River Inn After the Fiesta at Mendota River Celebration Archaeology Juice Annotation Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905