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Book SynopsisFrom the title poem: Ampersand pink as dead shrimp, the unborn curls in its tide pool--seed pearl whose mother lusters over irritant love it's too late to dislodge; little anemone, shrinking from touch. So and holds separate what it most closely binds. Review: "Ms. Greger's poems take place at the point of encounter between the mind and the worl
Trade Review"Ms. Greger's poems take place at the point of encounter between the mind and the world of matter... And it is the resistance of the real and the increasing urgency the poet feels in trying to extinguish her solitude ... that make these poems emotional."--The New York Times Book Review
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. v*Contents, pg. xi*The Shallows, pg. 3*Everyday Things, pg. 4*Book of Hours, pg. 6*Dream Lecture, June, pg. 7*Sex and Herodotus, pg. 9*Pastorale, pg. 11*Natural History, pg. 13*Queen of a Small Country, pg. 14*Melon Rind, Brain Coral, pg. 17*Magnetic Fields, pg. 18*The Garden of Acclimatization, pg. 19*Of, pg. 22*And, pg. 25*Dream Lectures, pg. 26*Passage Overland, pg. 32*Two Rodin Torsos, pg. 33*Habit, Those Yards, pg. 35*The Corner of Delicious and Jonathan Streets, pg. 37*Long Island Real Estate: Great Neck, pg. 39*Full Gutters in Beverly Hills, pg. 40*Piranesi in L.A., pg. 42*The Roman Baths at Chesters, pg. 44*Grounds, pg. 45*The Rich's Laundry, pg. 47*Chekhov in Translation, pg. 48*There, There, pg. 59*Tristan on Radio, pg. 60*Eurydice in Asylum, pg. 62*To Market, pg. 64*Graces, pg. 65*Second Movement: Adagio, pg. 67*Laundry, pg. 69*Life Drawing, pg. 71*This Underwater Room Where You Swim, Scaled, pg. 73*Precipitation, pg. 74*Exposures, pg. 76*To Speak of Water Music, pg. 80
