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In poems at once profound and accessible, Nadia Colburn finds splendor and astonishment in a natural world - and a human world - that is deeply troubled yet still majestically beautiful.

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Section 1 I Think It Is Such A Beautiful Upflying Smaller Even than Last Week The End of History Adulthood 4am Section 2 The Physical World Anxiety What We Are Taught Section 3 Memory And the Small Body Catalog of Beautiful Girls Stone Girl Sleeping Beauty Rage Know Knowing Reading to My Daughter Section 4 On My 43rd Birthday Summer Evening Hands Teach Me On the Shortest Day of the Year March Imaginary World My Throat Outside the Sparrows are Awake Section 5 Happiness 6pm Invocation Section 6 When Death Comes August Arrival Onion Today Like Yesterday Amid So Much Suffering, Do I Dare Be Happy? Midwinter Power May I Greet You Rain Pours off the Eaves of the House 12am You Postscript Acknowledgements

I Say the Sky

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    A Paperback / softback by Nadia Colburn

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      Publisher The University Press of Kentucky
      Published 9 January 2024
      ISBN-13 9780813198644
      978-0813198644
      ISBN-10 081319864X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In poems at once profound and accessible, Nadia Colburn finds splendor and astonishment in a natural world - and a human world - that is deeply troubled yet still majestically beautiful.

      Table of Contents
      Section 1 I Think It Is Such A Beautiful Upflying Smaller Even than Last Week The End of History Adulthood 4am Section 2 The Physical World Anxiety What We Are Taught Section 3 Memory And the Small Body Catalog of Beautiful Girls Stone Girl Sleeping Beauty Rage Know Knowing Reading to My Daughter Section 4 On My 43rd Birthday Summer Evening Hands Teach Me On the Shortest Day of the Year March Imaginary World My Throat Outside the Sparrows are Awake Section 5 Happiness 6pm Invocation Section 6 When Death Comes August Arrival Onion Today Like Yesterday Amid So Much Suffering, Do I Dare Be Happy? Midwinter Power May I Greet You Rain Pours off the Eaves of the House 12am You Postscript Acknowledgements

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