The Analyst Poems Author:Molly Peacock ?Whatever the subject, rich music follows the tap of Molly Peacock?s baton.? ?Washington PostWhen her psychoanalyst became a painter after surviving a stroke, the distinguished and beloved poet Molly Peacock, her longtime patient, took up a unique task. The Analyst is a new, visceral, twenty-first-century In Memoriam in which Peacock brilliantly... more » tells the story of a decades-long patient-therapist relationship that now reverses and continues to evolve. Peacock invigorates the notion of poetry as word-painting: a tapestry of images, from a red enameled steamer on a black stove to Tibetan monks funneling glowing sand into a mandala, create the backdrop to this quest to define identity.FROM ?IN OUR UNEXPECTED FUTURE?
. . . for frocks outlast pillars. But feelings
outlive frocks. The immaterial storms through,
a force beyond years (a mere four since you
were nearly felled). It isn?t what happened that lasts.
Not art, either, but the savory core. What?s felt.« less