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In this striking and nostalgic collection, Emily Rose Cole unearths the fragility and resilience of daughterhood through indelible imagery that evokes new senses of the body: swallowing keys, rain lashing eyelids, unzipping of flesh.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Self-Portrait as Judy Garland
  • Part One
  • Spell for the Fissured Brain
  • Double Memory with Train
  • Imagined Snapshot: Morningstar Studios, 1988
  • Lent
  • Self-Portrait as Rapunzel
  • Lovebites
  • Prayer
  • In the Year of the Divorce, My Fascinations Include: Surrealism, the Dust Bowl and The Wizard of Oz
  • Protection Spell
  • Somewhere Brighter
  • Meditation with Infinity
  • Four Poisons
  • Premonition
  • Part Two
  • Spell for Courage
  • Self-Portrait as Persephone Returning
  • Passport
  • Another Premonition
  • Portrait: Mama as Demeter
  • Her Cancer into Harvest
  • Still Life with Lines From Isaiah
  • Snapdragons (I)
  • After the Transplant Fails, I Dream of Crocodiles
  • Hospice
  • All I Wanted
  • Nocturne with Witch & Desire
  • MRI, Barnes Jewish Hospital
  • Part Three
  • Spell for the Grief Song Scarred to Your Throat
  • At Her Funeral, Singing
  • What Makes a Pearl
  • Elegy with Hemlock & Cold Tea
  • Self-Portrait as Dorothy Gale
  • Love Poem to Risk
  • In Toulouse (I)
  • MS Nocturne Without a Magician
  • At Cimetere de Terre Cabade
  • Snapdragons (II)
  • The Night Before My Diagnosis Is Confirmed
  • In Toulouse (II)
  • How Not to Remember Your Mother
  • MS Nocturne with Fuse, Crosshairs and Irreprable Fissure
  • Dear Burglar
  • Love Poem to Injection-Site Reactions
  • Asked If I Miss My Mother, I Say I Miss the House
  • MS Nocturne According to Ecclesiastes
  • Love Poem to Myself
  • What I Didn’t Call Her

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      Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/26/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780299336745, 978-0299336745
      ISBN10: 0299336743

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this striking and nostalgic collection, Emily Rose Cole unearths the fragility and resilience of daughterhood through indelible imagery that evokes new senses of the body: swallowing keys, rain lashing eyelids, unzipping of flesh.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Self-Portrait as Judy Garland
      • Part One
      • Spell for the Fissured Brain
      • Double Memory with Train
      • Imagined Snapshot: Morningstar Studios, 1988
      • Lent
      • Self-Portrait as Rapunzel
      • Lovebites
      • Prayer
      • In the Year of the Divorce, My Fascinations Include: Surrealism, the Dust Bowl and The Wizard of Oz
      • Protection Spell
      • Somewhere Brighter
      • Meditation with Infinity
      • Four Poisons
      • Premonition
      • Part Two
      • Spell for Courage
      • Self-Portrait as Persephone Returning
      • Passport
      • Another Premonition
      • Portrait: Mama as Demeter
      • Her Cancer into Harvest
      • Still Life with Lines From Isaiah
      • Snapdragons (I)
      • After the Transplant Fails, I Dream of Crocodiles
      • Hospice
      • All I Wanted
      • Nocturne with Witch & Desire
      • MRI, Barnes Jewish Hospital
      • Part Three
      • Spell for the Grief Song Scarred to Your Throat
      • At Her Funeral, Singing
      • What Makes a Pearl
      • Elegy with Hemlock & Cold Tea
      • Self-Portrait as Dorothy Gale
      • Love Poem to Risk
      • In Toulouse (I)
      • MS Nocturne Without a Magician
      • At Cimetere de Terre Cabade
      • Snapdragons (II)
      • The Night Before My Diagnosis Is Confirmed
      • In Toulouse (II)
      • How Not to Remember Your Mother
      • MS Nocturne with Fuse, Crosshairs and Irreprable Fissure
      • Dear Burglar
      • Love Poem to Injection-Site Reactions
      • Asked If I Miss My Mother, I Say I Miss the House
      • MS Nocturne According to Ecclesiastes
      • Love Poem to Myself
      • What I Didn’t Call Her

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