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- The Story You Tell Yourself
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: The Kent State University Press
- Series: Wick Poetry Chapbook Series
summary
“Heather Kirn’s The Story You Tell Yourself may be a first book, but Kirn’s firm intelligence and lyrical artistry make poems that are clearly the confident work of an extraordinarily accomplished, even thrilling, poet. Kirn isn’t kidding when she says, audaciously, ‘I found a shape and made a world,/then crawled inside. Where else was I to live?’ Her poems make a world that is a pleasure to enter, inhabit, and learn from.” —Andrew Hudgins
“These poems are small miracles of naming that summon a world into existence. The poet doesn’t merely name things we know, she re-creates them. By speaking to a phone, she invents dialogue. By calling the birds as they fly south again, she raises a scene from her past. The past, in fact, haunts these pages, and yet the book feels resolutely triumphant. It teaches us how to celebrate in the midst of loss. Even ‘knowing the sun will erase it,’ we can move forward in the company of this amazing poet, writing our own ‘faint psalm[s] of unknowing.’”—Jeanne Murray Walker
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Writer Repents
- p. 1
- Ode to Seven
- pp. 2-3
- Skipping Stones
- pp. 5-6
- Deserted Base
- pp. 7-8
- What She Calls Eternity
- pp. 9-11
- Some Storm
- pp. 16-17
- Father Jim Shows Me Twelve Jesuses
- pp. 19-20
- After Excavating Your Inner-Child
- pp. 23-24
- The Last Word
- p. 25
Additional Information
ISBN
9781612776637
Related ISBN(s)
9781606351277
MARC Record
OCLC
821737193
Launched on MUSE
2012-10-01
Language
English
Open Access
No