Intimacy

Title Page, Awards, Copyright, Dedication, Quotes

INTIMACY Strike Anywhere, by DeanYoung selected by Charles Simic, 1995 Summer Mystagogia, by Bruce Beasley selected by CharlesWright, 1996 TheThicket Daybreak, by CatherineWebster selected by Jane Miller, 1997 Palma Cathedral, by MichaelWhite selected by Mark Strand, 1998 Popular Music, by Stephen Burt selected by Jorie Graham, 1999 Design, by Sally Keith selected by Allen Grossman, 2000 A Summer Evening, by Geoffrey Nutter selected by Jorie Graham, 2001 Chemical Wedding, by Robyn Ewing selected by Fanny Howe, 2002 Goldbeater’s Skin, by G. C.Waldrep selected by Donald Revell, 2003 Whethering, by Rusty Morrison selected by Forrest Gander, 2004 Frayed escort, by Karen Garthe selected by Cal Bedient, 2005 Carrier Wave, by Jaswinder Bolina selected by Lyn Hejinian, 2006 Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, by Craig MorganTeicher selected by Paul Hoover, 2007 One Sun Storm, by Endi Bogue Hartigan selected by Martha Ronk, 2008 The Lesser Fields, by Rob Schlegel selected by James Longenbach, 2009 Annulments, by Zach Savich selected by Donald Revell, 2010 ScaredText, by Eric Baus selected by Cole Swensen, 2011 Family System, by Jack Christian selected by ElizabethWillis, 2012 Intimacy, by Catherine Imbriglio selected by Stephen Burt, 2013 THE COLORADO PRIZE FOR POETRY INTIMACY POEMS Catherine Imbriglio Center for Literary Publishing Colorado State University Copyright © 2013 by Catherine Imbriglio. Winner of the 2013 Colorado Prize for Poetry. All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Center for Literary Publishing, 9105 Campus Delivery, Department of English, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-9105. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Imbriglio, Catherine. [Poems. Selections] Intimacy : Poems / Catherine Imbriglio. pages cm. -- (The Colorado Prize for Poetry) Includes bibliographical references and index. 2013 Colorado Prize for Poetry. isbn 978-1-885635-33-4 (p : alk. paper) -- isbn 978-1-885635-34-1 (electronic) I.Title. ps3609.m37a6 2013 811’.6--dc23 2013035740 The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. 1 2 3 4 5 17 16 15 14 13 for Reginald Shepherd Imagine hitting moonlight and living to tell. —Michael Gizzi Ha, ha’s the final consequence. —Herman Melville ...