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The University of Akron Press
- The Book of Endings
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: The University of Akron Press
- Series: Akron Series in Poetry
summary
The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning with absence—the death of the author's mother, the absence of the beloved, the absence of an accountable god, cicadas, the dead stars arriving, the dead moon aglow in the night sky.
Table of Contents
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- Left Panel
- [December]
- p. 5
- [God speaks]
- p. 6
- [Summa mathematica]
- pp. 7-8
- [I would drive to your grave]
- pp. 9-10
- [Take eat]
- pp. 16-17
- [Practice]
- p. 22
- Right Panel
- [Sisyphus in love]
- p. 33
- [Charm for a spring storm]
- pp. 41-43
- [Landscape with falling birds]
- pp. 44-45
- [The horses]
- p. 48
- [Touch me now]
- pp. 49-50
- [Was it ice]
- p. 51
- [Epiphany]
- pp. 54-56
- Center Panel
- [Actias luna]
- pp. 59-60
- [This I know]
- pp. 63-64
- [What I mean]
- pp. 65-67
- [Snowfields]
- p. 70
- [Let the blue earth spin]
- pp. 71-72
- [Dear god I ask]
- pp. 77-78
- [Invocation]
- p. 81
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 87-88
Additional Information
ISBN
9781629220642
Related ISBN(s)
9781629220628
MARC Record
OCLC
953867319
Pages
88
Launched on MUSE
2017-03-04
Language
English
Open Access
No