Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
76 pages ; 23 cm.
Other Titles:
Poems. Selections
Contents:
First Murmuration. I. Camera Lucida -- Rites of Passage: A Conditional -- How I Learned I Had the Shine -- For My Uncle, Who Learned to Fly -- Marilyn -- For My Sister, Miscarried -- Other Planets, Other Stars -- The Art of Drowning -- My Life in Men -- Song -- Concordance for My Grandfather's Dementia -- Drunk Again, He Pushes Her -- Rain Elegy -- Baptize Him in Dark Water -- The Day He Became an Aurora Borealis -- The Mandoline. II. The End of the Unified Field -- The Truth of Them -- My Grandfather's Suits -- These Are Not Nice Birds -- Through a Glass Darkly -- Letter to My Grandfather, Who Lived Two Lives -- Truths Only Starlings Will Speak -- How to Pray -- Fathers and Sons -- The Things of the World Go on without Us -- True North, a Retrospective.
Summary:
"The first section of the book deals with familial violence and abuse--sexual, physical, and emotional; the second section considers sexual identity, specifically the multigenerational repression, erasure, and silencing of homosexual identity"-- Provided by publisher.
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