In this Book

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Since her early poems, Katharine Coles has been known as a poet who isn’t afraid to tackle big subjects that occupy the intersections of art and science, including how we know what is true (if we do). Driven by her insatiable curiosity and relying on a use of form and elision so deft it amounts to sleight-of-hand, Coles in her seventh book, Wayward, brings these big questions into small spaces, moving the reader at mind-speed through brief meditations on love, marriage, and family; the permeable boundaries of the self; death; and perception. Though her subjects are deeply serious, Coles’ primary tools for addressing them include her wry wit and agile intelligence, which, taking nothing for granted, she deploys to examine our basic assumptions about the world and our experience within it. As always, Coles here uses technical skill to move her thinking in new directions—many of them at once.

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  1. Halftitle
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. How We Sing
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  1. Canis Sollicitor
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  1. Landscape with Angel
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  1. The Archimedes Palimpsest
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  1. Annunciation
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  1. The New Day
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  1. Submersible
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  1. The Same Old Riddle
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  1. Knowing
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  1. New Year Cento on Infinity and Mortality
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  1. In Store
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  1. Taste of a Wound Not Healing
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  1. Interior
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  1. On Sappho
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  1. Why We Always Fuck Before A Funeral
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  1. Another Beast
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  1. Just a Thought
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  1. From the Middle
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  1. Misreading
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  1. Cento with Typo, from a Blog by Errol Morris
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  1. Landscape with Alchemist
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  1. Self-Portrait from a Negative
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  1. From Space
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  1. The Question of the Soul
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  1. In Our Twenty-fifth Summer
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  1. Kept in Mind
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  1. The Oldest Known Love Poem
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  1. No End to Happiness,
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  1. The Things We Observe in the Universe Are Not the Important Things
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  1. Canis Veritatem Contemplator
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  1. I Like to Wake Up
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  1. Visiting the Dinosaurs
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  1. Landscape with Bronzes and Little Rooms
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  1. In the Garden
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  1. Biographical Note
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