Toward ripening. Translating a bridge -- The quarrel -- Onerous citizenship -- Teresa : mimosa oak -- Caesura -- First letter, folded close -- Treasured story : the prom dress -- Rebound (Amygdalan) -- The neurosurgeon -- Parsing -- Elephants fighting -- Slow dancing -- Tessera : missive -- Erasure -- Rope, sign, edge -- Harvests -- Tessera : braille -- Curse -- On the same side : words wrung & wrought -- From field to field -- Arriving at if -- The oncologist -- Of seeds salvaged -- Postcard -- Of jewels -- Vanquishing -- Simon's essay -- For Lee, who shines -- When to sing -- Terrera : last testament -- Ode against falling -- Breath enough -- Bargaining -- The tenth dress, word-woven -- Unconnetting -- On the virtual sill, on the blue hum -- The question -- Joyful lessons -- Together with you, stranger -- Tessera : blazed throat -- Psalm -- Toward ripening.
Summary:
"Breath Enough transforms, as poets will, loss into song, but this poet gives the reader something more, something greater: a book of courage and consolation. Like life, like love, Vivian Teter’s poetry is both immanent and transcendent: 'everywhere and at once you draw near / your skin of finest petals gathered / shimmering upward, wind-borne, stunning'”--Richard Jones, author of The Blessing and editor of Poetry East.
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