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- I Watched You Disappear: Poems
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Louisiana State University Press
Passionately written and perfectly crafted, Anya Krugovoy Silver's poems help us to view life through a different lens. In I Watched You Disappear, she offers meditations on sickness but also celebrations of art, motherhood, and family, as well as a sequence of poems based on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Throughout her collection, Silver examines feelings of pain, anger, and urgency caused by a serious illness and presents the struggle to cope in a lyrical and moving way. Never overwhelmed by her own mortality, Silver manages to speak with beauty and grace about a terrifying subject.
In her poems based on Grimm's fairy tales, Silver subtly and surprisingly interweaves retellings of these tales with reflections on life and death. Infinitely touching, engaging, and finely tuned, Silver's poems invite us to look at the lives we love in new and profound ways.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-viii
- Dedication
- pp. 1-2
- I
- Night Prayer
- p. 5
- Reading “Ulysses”
- p. 11
- Hospital at Night
- p. 12
- Leaving the Hospital
- p. 13
- Periwinkle
- p. 15
- Russian Bells
- p. 16
- Three Salvations
- pp. 17-19
- Paper Mill, Macon
- p. 20
- The Dybbuk
- p. 21
- I Watched You Disappear
- pp. 22-23
- Skirts and Dresses
- p. 24
- II
- Owl Maiden
- p. 29
- Strawberries in Snow
- p. 31
- The Burned Ones
- p. 32
- Silver Hands
- p. 33
- The Flowered Skull
- p. 34
- The Hazel Tree
- p. 35
- III
- My Son’s Legs
- p. 43
- The Overcoat
- p. 46
- My Father in Vienna, 1958
- pp. 47-48
- Sorting Peaches
- p. 49
- On Our Anniversary
- p. 50
- There’s a River
- p. 52
- No, it’s not
- p. 54
- IV
- Late Renoir
- p. 59
- Valentine Godé-Darel (1873–1915)
- pp. 60-62
- Saint Sunday
- p. 65
- The Buried Moon
- p. 66
- The Firebird
- p. 67
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 71-73
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