| Description |
124 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Late poems -- Ghost cat -- Salt -- Passports -- Blizzard -- Coconut -- Souvenirs -- The tin woodwoman gets a message -- If there were no emptiness -- Health class (1953) -- A genre painting -- Princess clothing -- Cicadas -- Double-entry slug sex -- Everyone else’s sex life -- Betrayal -- Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday -- Cassandra considers declining the gift -- Shadow -- Songs for murdered sisters. 1 Empty chair ; 2. Enchantment ; 3. Anger ; 4. Dream ; 5. Bird soul ; 6. Lost ; 7. Rage ; Coda: song -- The dear ones -- Digging up the Scythians -- September mushrooms -- Carving the jacks -- A drone scans the wreckage -- Aflame -- Update on werewolves -- Zombie -- The aliens arrive -- Siren brooding on her eggs -- Spider signatures -- At the translation conference -- Walking in the madman’s wood -- Feather -- Fatal light awareness -- Fear of birds -- Short takes on wolves -- Table settings -- Improvisation on a first line by Yeats -- zHeart of the Arcticy -- Plasticine suite. 1. Rock-like object on beach ; 2. Faint hopes ; 3. Foliage ; 4. Midway Island albatross ; 5. Editorial notes ; 6. Sorcerer’s apprentice ; 7. Whales ; 8. Little robot ; 9. The bright side -- Tracking the rain -- Oh children -- The twilight of the gods -- This fiord looks like a lake -- One day -- Sad utensils -- Winter vacations -- Hayfoot -- Mr. Lionheart -- Invisible man -- Silver slippers -- Within -- Flatline -- Disenchanted corpse -- Dearly -- Blackberries. |
| Summary |
The internationally acclaimed author presents her first collection of poetry in over a decade that addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, nature, and zombies. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9780063032491 |
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