Kitten Cat Kitten. Love and Death -- The Revenants -- The River Twice -- Two Lives -- Hamden -- Joanne and Anne -- Self-Help -- One -- Blame -- My Dog, the Past -- Prayer at the Masked Ball -- The Heart Has Reasons -- The Letters -- The Blue Sea Motel -- Love Poem (Tentative Title) -- Here and There -- Last Things First -- Annie Came for the Apples -- That's the Hell We're In -- Alphabet -- Last Act -- Invisible Eden -- Home -- Anniversary -- The Great Deviled Eggs of the World -- My Mother, Heidegger and Derrida -- Oncle Lily -- His Shirt -- The Second Olga -- The Death of Zero -- Unwritten -- Last Words, Last Rites, Last Acts -- Oldies Night at the Riverbottom -- Calvary Cemetery -- It -- Cabin -- Lifespan of the Average Man -- Ex -- Erase Nothing -- Signs from Above -- The Double -- Kitten Cat Kitten.
Summary:
"Yes and No is a book about looking back and looking forward. Many of the poems deal with the loss of friends and relatives whose spirits remain in the poet's life in memory and even apparition. As the title connotes, the collection is about affirmation and negation: there are love poems and poems of the devastating loss of love and poems of passion and the dwindling of it. A spiritual thread runs through the book as well, as seen in the opening poem, 'Prayer at the Masked Ball,' and in the question asked in the title poem: 'are we connected to the infinite, or not?'."--Provided by publisher.
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