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- The Wild Night Dress: Poems
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- 2017
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
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Finalist, 2017 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, edited by Billy Collins
“A graceful synthesis of poetry and science.”
—Billy Collins
Laura McCullough finds passage through the darkest times as she loses, in short order, her mother and her marriage. Through her near unbearable grief, she creates poems that slip between science and nature as she grasps at coordinates in a world spun out of its orbit. From the God Particle to toroidal vortexes, from the slippery linguistics of translation to the translation of the body, McCullough brings readers to the mystery of surrender, and the paradox that what we bear can make us more beautiful, that there is a gift in grief.
Table of Contents
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- Series Editor’s Preface
- pp. vii-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Prologue
- The Love Particle
- pp. 3-4
- Part I: Passage with Hardboiled Egg
- Toward Something Larger
- pp. 10-11
- The Center of the Grid
- pp. 12-13
- Soliloquy with Honey: Time to Die
- pp. 14-15
- I am Calling You
- p. 17
- Hunger Always Returns
- pp. 19-20
- Screwdriver Winter
- p. 21
- Taking Off the Nightdress
- pp. 23-24
- Revolving Door
- p. 27
- Part II: Skatterbreak
- Body a Doorway
- p. 35
- Negatively Charged
- pp. 36-37
- Libretto of Myrrh
- pp. 39-40
- The Business of Feeding People #1
- pp. 42-43
- Everywhere I Haven’t Been Anywhere
- pp. 44-45
- Salt and Stars
- pp. 49-50
- Part III: Syntactical Nature
- Mystery and Frequency
- pp. 59-60
- The Syntactical Nature of Reality
- pp. 64-65
- Everyday Favors
- p. 66
- Part IV: Retreat : Surrender
- Lake of Sky: Refrain
- p. 71
- Reclaimed Wood
- pp. 74-75
- Bodies that Allow
- pp. 77-78
- In Aggregate
- pp. 79-80
- There is Also Up
- p. 82
- The Business of Feeding People #2
- pp. 85-86
- A Thousand Acres of Whale-thought
- pp. 87-88
- Maggot Therapy
- pp. 89-92
- Saved from the Fall by Roy Batty
- pp. 93-94
- Time is a Consequence
- pp. 95-96
- Coda
- Dissimulation of Birds
- pp. 99-100
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610756099
Related ISBN(s)
9781682260272
MARC Record
OCLC
973881013
Pages
116
Launched on MUSE
2017-03-14
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017