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Book SynopsisWhite Pine Press Poetry Prize Winner "Rainer Maria Rilke said that there are two inexhaustible sources for poetry, childhood and dreams, and Kim Garcia drinks deeply from both wells in these magical, spooky, riveting, and mysterious poems"--Edward Hirsch "Garcia speaks in the language of delicate and mesmerizing touch without ever falling into precious sentimentality. Over and again, these poems mount to harsh and cold violences that speak to the intricacies of the soul in a gorgeous way that leaves the reader feeling bruised--as in pressed upon--but not bloody. This is a brilliant book of first-rate artistry."--Jericho Brown, Poetry Prize judge Kim Garcia is also the author DRONE and Madonna Magdalene. She teaches creative writing at Boston College.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents Tales of the Sisters: Snow 7 In My City of Z, Forgiveness 8 How I Learned to Talk 10 And in the beginning was all the after 11 Oil 14 Strangers 15 Miracle 17 Tales of the Sisters: Bees 18 Rumpelstiltskin 19 The Little Golden Books: The Toad Princess 20 : Queen Babel : Little Man 21 For my father and the cancer that killed him 22 1943, How We Got Made 23 Tales of the Sisters: The Walrus 24 Thor 25 You’re All the Gods to Me 26 Transfusion, 2 pm 27 This Remains 29 The Dead in Summer 30 echo, echo 32 Sonnet 33 We Say 34 Tales of the Sisters: Cherries 35 Aubade 37 Blessing 38 Unicorn and Virgin, Cloister Tapestries 39 Fixed 40 Annunciation 41 Prayer on the Feast of the Assumption 42 Tales of the Sisters: Atlantis 43 The Child Steps into the Dream Water to Declare her Existence 44 Ophelia Emerges From the River, Unscathed 45 Black Madonna 46 Tales of the Sisters: Judgment 48 Grief 50 Early Morning 51 Paschal Triptych: Spring’s dead child heaves her stone 52 : Stranger, this happiness 52 : The net is cast 52 Unkind, Inclement Month 54 Shifting Light/Columbia River Gorge 55 Lilies of the Field 56 Tales of the Sisters: Mermaids 57 the mystic crucifixion by Tintoretto 58 Corpse Pose 59 Inauguration 60 Tilth of snow 61 The Dead Wait on the Living to Go on Living 62 It’s simpler 63 lifting heaven from its shelf 64 ?
