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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

    Shopping or The End of Time

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        Publisher MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
        Published 11/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN-13 9780299340940
        978-0299340940
        ISBN-10 0299340945

        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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