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- Misery Prefigured
- Book
- 2001
- Published by: Southern Illinois University Press
- Series: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
In her second collection of poems, J. Allyn Rosser explores the human condition in all its gloriously valiant pathos. Misery Prefigured dwells on our continual reinventions of self and world and the restless dynamic that vibrates between them.Whether contemplating a failed marriage, a visit from God, or a pearl dropped into a bottle of Prell shampoo, Rosser's wry yet impassioned eye looks hard for a habitable and abiding truth. Alternating between deadpan and dead serious, these poems are often darkly funny, exposing the contradictions inherent in every desire. Misery Prefigured is fueled by a cocky, unsentimental determination to make some consolatory sense of what passes for reality.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. 4
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-11
- Sole Blessing
- pp. 3-14
- Square Dance, Fourth Grade
- pp. 4-5
- Resurfaced
- pp. 6-7
- Voodoo That You Do
- pp. 8-19
- Quest of the Prell
- pp. 9-10
- The Sum Contradiction of Our Shades
- pp. 13-16
- Renouncing the Tower
- pp. 18-29
- Coming Your Way
- pp. 21-22
- Suburban Report
- pp. 25-36
- Eschatology of the Lexicon
- pp. 26-37
- Much Later
- pp. 29-40
- You Are Here •
- pp. 30-31
- Patience Is a Virtue
- pp. 32-43
- Reading at the Y
- pp. 34-45
- Part Three
- pp. 35-47
- Heart to India
- pp. 37-48
- Second Story, Old Snow
- pp. 38-39
- Rods and R.
- pp. 40-41
- Missing Person
- pp. 42-43
- The Next Stop Stopping
- pp. 44-45
- Lover Release Agreement
- pp. 46-57
- Late Elvis
- pp. 47-58
- Beckett Dead Imagine
- pp. 48-50
- Buffalo Bayou
- pp. 51-53
- Delayed Response
- pp. 57-58
- North Jersey Farmland, Vile Mood
- pp. 62-63
- Before the Sickness Is Official
- pp. 64-65
- Late Letter
- pp. 67-78
- Sugar Dada
- pp. 70-81
- Sea and Rain
- pp. 71-72
- The Brain of the World
- pp. 73-75
- Other books in this series
- pp. 76-87
- Back Cover
- p. 88
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2001
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