The City She Was
Publication Year: 2011
“The human body has only five senses but The City She Was reroutes the architecture of experience so effectively that the reader is awarded a new unnamed sense, a soft power, one that reprioritizes our outdated reality with the gathering infrastructure of the geography of language. The whole aggressive world is this book’s only enemy, and no one tricks absurdity into form, reality into abstraction, injustice into stylized verdict, and contemporary popular culture into a useful, heroic trap of surreal-her-wholeness like Carmen Giménez Smith.”—Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of Skin, Inc. and The Maverick Room
Published by: Center for Literary Publishing
CONTENTS
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pp. vii-ix
ONE
For About Five Minutes in the Aughts
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pp. 3-
Pills
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pp. 4-5
The Walk
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pp. 6-
Vita
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pp. 7-8
Museum of Lost Acquaintance
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pp. 9-11
The City She Was
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pp. 12-14
Bleeding Heart
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pp. 15-
Division
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pp. 16-
TWO
The Science of Parting
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pp. 19-
Beauty Regimen
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pp. 20-
The Grand Tour
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pp. 21-
Pageant of Scrutiny
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pp. 22-
The Skeptic
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pp. 23-
In-Between Elegy
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pp. 24-
The Endangered You
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pp. 25-
Stockholm Syndrome
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pp. 26-
Lunatics on My Avenue
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pp. 27-
Let Down My Bucket
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pp. 28-
Bay Bridge Abstraction
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pp. 29-
The If of Omission
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pp. 30-31
Civilizing Mission
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pp. 32-33
Smaller, Quieter
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pp. 34-
Red Baroness
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pp. 35-36
THREE
Mistakes Were Made
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pp. 39-
My Fire and Fever Fussy
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pp. 40-
Soft Power
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pp. 41-42
Ars Amatoria
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pp. 43-45
The Terms
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pp. 46-
Don’t Get Out Much Anymore
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pp. 47-
Rival
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pp. 48-
My Open Sesame
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pp. 49-
Redaction
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pp. 50-
Under a Wan Sun
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pp. 51-
Malaprops
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pp. 52-
Sometimes There’s a Virgin
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pp. 53-
These Halting Plaints
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pp. 54-
Don’t I Disappear
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pp. 55-
My Hegemony
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pp. 56-57
Anodyne
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pp. 58-
To My Book
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pp. 59-
Notes
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pp. 60-
Acknowledgments
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pp. 61-
Many thanks to the editors who published these poems in the following publications: 26, A Public Space, Barn Owl Review, Bone Bouquet, Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, Coconut Poetry, Colorado...
E-ISBN-13: 9781885635235
E-ISBN-10: 1885635230
Print-ISBN-13: 9781885635198
Print-ISBN-10: 1885635192
Page Count: 64
Publication Year: 2011
Series Title: Mountain West Poetry Series
Series Editor Byline: Stephanie G'Schwing and Donal Revell, Series Editors
