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Book Synopsis"A whirling, Dionysian poet. . . . Dwyer negotiates brazenly with huge tracts of the human condition. Her leaping imagination will make you laugh out loud. The poems in Belle Laide are a rodeo; hang on to your saddle, cowboy."Tony Hoagland A man with a shovel in his hand / is a sexy thing. I dare myself to bury my dead, / to incline towards Cupid's clouds. I dare myself to love a man all-out. / I'm less afraid of the stray hairs of strangers left behind in hotel bathtubs; / less afraid of the sounds in the wind. Conversing is sometimes useless, / like beavers clawing ice hoping to erase back into water. Joanne Dominique Dwyer earned a BA in creative writing from the College of Santa Fe and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a Bread Loaf Scholar award, and the Anne Halley Poetry Prize. Dwyer resides in northern New Mexico where she works as facilitator for the Alzheimer's Poetry Project.
Table of ContentsArs Poetica, or Keeper-of-the-Water Coat-of-Arms Harem Late Night Confessions Barely a Body Comes Knocking Aphonic Surrender Feral Fields Under House Arrest Photuris P. Bears and Marmots Notes on Photuris P. if an owl is colorblind The Relativity of Sorrow In the Arms of Morpheus Discalced II Bent Animal Love Absolution Request to a Lover The Last Shepherd Down Supine in the Sun in the Neighborhood of Naked In the Geometry of Less Wedded to Dirt A Beehive on a Shelf Bareback I Draw Blood The Skin of an Otter Kyphosis III Christina the Astonishing Lingual Down-by-the-River Getting Back on the Back of a Horse In the Yard of the Sanatorium She Had Some Water Alchemy Spinning Mechanical Bull Please, Come In Snow May 25 Closer to the Surface Bull's-eye No Identity Crisis Here
