In this Book
- Talking Pillow
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
Talking Pillow celebrates love as amazement, sustenance, and the progenitor of scarce-believable loss. The book centers around the sudden death of the author’s long-time partner and travels outward to events in the world at large. Imagining themselves into multiple times, places, and lives, the poems comically explore the possibilities of attachment between people and the absurdity of death’s sudden intrusion. Antic and often funny, these poems converse with all that we care about, fear, and fail to understand.
Table of Contents
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- The Last Toast
- pp. xi-xii
- The Lady of the House
- Lo Que Hay
- p. 4
- Boyfriend Story
- pp. 5-6
- Talking Pillow
- p. 10
- What Is Pleasure
- p. 11
- Bassfield Blue
- p. 12
- Ancestral Dentures
- p. 29
- Billet Doux
- p. 30
- Country of Songbirds
- p. 33
- Methods of Choice
- p. 35
- Young Benefactor
- p. 36
- An Attempt
- pp. 37-38
- Bicycle Story
- pp. 39-40
- Phenomenal Body
- p. 41
- A Last Stay
- p. 44
- The River Wants Grip
- p. 45
- Springtime
- p. 46
- Second Elegy
- pp. 53-54
- Bicycle Story
- pp. 55-56
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 59-60
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822983156
Related ISBN(s)
9780822965152
MARC Record
OCLC
1011279421
Pages
72
Launched on MUSE
2017-11-15
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017