Circles Where the Head Should Be

Caki Wilkinson

Publication Year: 2011

The poems in Circles Where the Head Should Be are full of objects and oddities, bits of news, epic catalogues, and a cast of characters hoping to make sense of it all. Underneath the often whimsical surface, however, lies a search for those connections we long for but so often miss, and a wish for art to bridge the gaps. “Circles Where the Head Should Be has its own distinctive voice, a lively intelligence, insatiable curiosity, and a decided command of form. These qualities play off one another in ways that instruct and delight. An irresistible book.”—J. D. McClatchy, author of Mercury Dressing: Poems, judge

Published by: University of North Texas Press

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E-ISBN-13: 9781574413427
Print-ISBN-13: 9781574413090

Page Count: 84
Publication Year: 2011

Series Title: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry

Circles Where the Head Should Be

Cover

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

I.

Cosmogony

Lares and Penates

Bower Bird

Lady on a Unicycle

Same Lady, Different Unicycle

The Truth About Effects

Genealogy

Girl Under Bug Zapper

Portrait of the Artist with Toothpick Bridge

Itinerant

Mnemosyne

Fisher King

Bildungsroman

II.

The School by the Zoo

I. Big Sandstone Building in Memory of

II. Ecce Signum!

III. Involution

IV. Swan Song

V. Dramatis Personae

VI. Interiors

VII. Offices

VIII. “The monkeys make sorrowful noises overhead”

IX. “I’ve been to the zoo. I said, I’ve been to the zoo”

X. Perspectives

XI. Shaping Behaviors

XII. Women’s Studies

XIII. Ichnology

XIV. Ichthyology

XV. Reciprocity

XVI. Mutatis Mutandis

III.

Tactics: A Short Lesson

Portrait of the Artist with Paint-by-Numbers

Svengali Deck

Plot Twists

Flea Circus

Felix Culpa

Epithalamium

Storm and Stress

Aftermath

Dead Matter

Assisted Living

Miniatures

The Truth About Distance

A Correlated History of Synchronicity

Research Areas

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