Description
Book SynopsisAnchored by the long poem Cantata, which chronicles the author's pregnancy and the birth of her son, this book asks how one might reconcile one's simple joys with the world's larger concerns.
Table of ContentsI
Estuary
Self-Portrait as Flint, Dust, an Egg-Blue Truck, Memory of Arson & Signs
On Wanting a Child
Sfumato
Bright Cell
Scintilla
Dizzy with the Glow of What Might Dehisce
Dryope to Amphissos
Diplopia
Woman Holding a Balance
Auralia
Coda
Malleus, Incus, Stapes
Missive
Furculae
One or Two Things Sacred to Sorrow
II
Marina
Captive of the Mineral World
Residuum
University
Peepwillow
Cynosure
Signs of Life
Anima
Plumed Wings, Apposing Thumbs & Other Household Mutations
Midwinter
Saturnism
Omphalocele
Anamnesis
Bird of Consequence
Occurrence
News
Ceridwen to Taliesin
III
Cantata
Prelude
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
Postlude: Madrigal
IV
Bread
Firstborn
Birthday
Grace Absentia
Partita
Thieves
Patia
Grasp
Integer
Io to Zeus
Canticle
Hypothetica
The Will: Mary Catherine Speaks Dockside
Clepsydra
Vision
Appoggiatura
Foxfire
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Poet
