The Book of Ten

Susan Wood

Publication Year: 2011

“Sometimes your car breaks down in front of a gas station, and sometimes it doesn’t. Susan Wood works the lonely stretch of road that connects these two possibilities. It seems as though it’s always night in these beautiful, haunting poems, but Wood lights the landscape with her vision, her intelligence, and the fierceness of her love for everything human.”—David Kirby

Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press

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E-ISBN-13: 9780822991229
E-ISBN-10: 0822991225
Print-ISBN-13: 9780822961390
Print-ISBN-10: 0822961393

Page Count: 96
Publication Year: 2011

Series Title: Pitt Poetry Series
Series Editor Byline: Ed Ochester

The Book of Ten

Title Page, Copyright

Contents

The Lord God Returns

Decalogue: Thin Ice

The Soul Bone

Decalogue: What If

Soledad

Decalogue: Rooms

I Got a Mind to Ramble

Decalogue: Husbands and Wives

Custody

In America

After His Retirement, LBJ Visits Greenville

“The Strange Case of the Virgin Lidwina”

A Short History of Women in the Nineteenth Century

Daily Life

If Grief Were a Bird

My Father Looks Down on Me

Benediction

Decalogue: Fathers and Daughters

Palace Theater

Dotage

Decalogue: Mothers and Daughters

The Old Testament

Decalogue: Mothers and Sons

The Magic Hour

Decalogue: Ethics

Horoscope

Without Number

Decalogue: Chance

My Mother Comes Back to Me

Decalogue: Siblings

Gratification

Elegy for My Pug Cosmo

Acknowledgments

Notes

Research Areas

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