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From wildfire and war to bleached reefs and human frailty, Peggy Shumaker’s new poems meditate on mortality. Her poems speak with elegaic force for lost languages, lost ancestors, lost ways of being. This work sharpens the edges of our perception, drawing on the inner life, on secrets that keep us alive. With language as lyrical as the natural world, the poems in Gnawed Bones nourish us.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Section I: July Twilight on the Chena
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  1. July Twilight on the Chena
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  1. What we Get Used To
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  1. Sea Change
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  1. Snapshot
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  1. Polished Table
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  1. Deliverance
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  1. Pheasant
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  1. Gnawed Bones
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  1. Nests, an Elegy
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  1. Smoke
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  1. When Ground Cannot Take in More Rain
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  1. Night Dive
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  1. Night Watch
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  1. As War Goes On
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  1. Bugler, Ft. Wainwright, Alaska
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  1. Dive, Three Definitions
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  1. Section II: Mystery Aisle
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  1. The Provider
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  1. Desert Odyssey
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  1. Touch and Go
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  1. Always the Entertainer
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  1. Rinsing that Tomato
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  1. You’re Here
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  1. Chickens
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  1. Swallows
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  1. Ha Ha Ha
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  1. No Sign
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  1. My Father Never
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  1. Beyond Words, This Language
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  1. Radio Control
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  1. No One Knows How to Speak
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  1. Albóndigas
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  1. Portal
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  1. Section III: Our Mother of Sorrows
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  1. Land Fraud Nosebleed
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  1. Desert Climbing
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  1. Better Homes
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  1. Go to the Broom Closet and Pick Out a Stick
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  1. Horny Toads
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  1. Asthma
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  1. Our Mother of Sorrows
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  1. Sky of Souls
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  1. Upset Woman
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  1. You Should Know Better
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  1. Glyphs on a Limestone Stela
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  1. All the Mustaches on All the Judases
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  1. The Aroma of Rain in the Desert
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  1. Mango
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  1. Ocotillo
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  1. Norwegian Wood
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  1. Mother Tongue
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  1. That Painting I Didn’t Buy
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  1. Section IV: Naming What we Hold in our Hand
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  1. Wilderness
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  1. Pale Woman on Stretcher
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  1. What Next
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  1. A Brief Aside
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  1. Narrow Roads to/from the Interior
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  1. Missing
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  1. Strokes
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  1. Lapse
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  1. Hard Stick
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  1. Spleen
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  1. Shower
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  1. Good Sign
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  1. Naming What we Hold in our Hand
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  1. Kus-Sun-Ar
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  1. Oatmeal
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  1. In Praise, Ephemera
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  1. Chatanika
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  1. Long Before we got Here, Long After we’re Gone
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Other Works by the Author
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