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Book Synopsis
These tour-de-force poems simultaneously capture an impression of emptiness and pleasure, of existing in a liminal space filled with both hollowness and potential.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Ravine
  • Part 1. Women
    Who begat the earth?
    80 to 90 percent of my awareness
    When I was 13 there was a girl I knew
    My gravestone
    The mother should be as stunning
    With pleasure the young men
    Initially I was a beautiful woman
    A naked woman is perched in the window
    The doves were moaning crying cooing calling
    A map is a picture that shows where things are
  • Part 2. Money
    My husband fidgets with the inner mechanism of the country
    The culture oriented itself toward shopping
    In my childhood
    The economy is synchronized and delicate
    In this house we loved
    My darkest thoughts
    In the middle of the disaster nothing bad had happened to me
    My new blue kitchen cabinets painted blue
    Is the wind so dirty?
    Our house (among all the homes in the city)
  • Part 3. Children
    A ghost is what you call a woman
    The new mothers
    The unbearable can actually be borne
    My pregnancy was a long and happy nightmare
    Nothing could be sweeter than
    JoaquÍn is my favorite child
    Statues or knotted ropes or scored stone
    I ask JoaquÍn if he likes the music
    AndrÉs said
    Woe was the sentiment
  • Part 4. Ghosts
    Sitting at the lip of the tunnel to the past
    It is sad
    What is your ideal life
    I am going to make a poem
    We each of us carry
    Neptune is a place we’ll never go
    All the time art is falling
    It is turbulent to be a person
    Hypothetical Painting

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      Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Publication Date: 11/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780299340940, 978-0299340940
      ISBN10: 0299340945
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      These tour-de-force poems simultaneously capture an impression of emptiness and pleasure, of existing in a liminal space filled with both hollowness and potential.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Ravine
      • Part 1. Women
        Who begat the earth?
        80 to 90 percent of my awareness
        When I was 13 there was a girl I knew
        My gravestone
        The mother should be as stunning
        With pleasure the young men
        Initially I was a beautiful woman
        A naked woman is perched in the window
        The doves were moaning crying cooing calling
        A map is a picture that shows where things are
      • Part 2. Money
        My husband fidgets with the inner mechanism of the country
        The culture oriented itself toward shopping
        In my childhood
        The economy is synchronized and delicate
        In this house we loved
        My darkest thoughts
        In the middle of the disaster nothing bad had happened to me
        My new blue kitchen cabinets painted blue
        Is the wind so dirty?
        Our house (among all the homes in the city)
      • Part 3. Children
        A ghost is what you call a woman
        The new mothers
        The unbearable can actually be borne
        My pregnancy was a long and happy nightmare
        Nothing could be sweeter than
        JoaquÍn is my favorite child
        Statues or knotted ropes or scored stone
        I ask JoaquÍn if he likes the music
        AndrÉs said
        Woe was the sentiment
      • Part 4. Ghosts
        Sitting at the lip of the tunnel to the past
        It is sad
        What is your ideal life
        I am going to make a poem
        We each of us carry
        Neptune is a place we’ll never go
        All the time art is falling
        It is turbulent to be a person
        Hypothetical Painting

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