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Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's Grave
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Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, Kim Dower’s poetry is quirky, dark, sexy, disarmingly candid, funny, and moving. In Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave, she explores all the colors in the landscape of death and its intersections with love, longing, obsession, sadness, joy, and beauty, revealing hidden truths with devastating honesty. She’s a poet who seamlessly combines hilarity and despair, and her fourth collection—heartbreaking, soaring, sad, and wise—bravely imagines another life beyond the one we all know. From their alluring titles to their haunting last lines, the poems in Kim Dower’s newest collection soothe, terrify, and always surprise, revealing the extraordinary within the ordinary—death flipped inside out.

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  1. Cover Page
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  1. Half-title page
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright page
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Dedication
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  1. Contents
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  1. I
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  1. He said I wrote about death,
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  1. If you see a crib
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  1. Appliances
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  1. Unruly Aura
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  1. The Rockettes
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  1. Thirst
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  1. How I Spent My Summer Vacation
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  1. What it Means When You Dream You Bought a Red Cadillac
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  1. Family Wearing Pajamas Runs Across the Tennis Court in Plummer Park
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  1. She’s never trusted happiness
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  1. Ink
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  1. I Can Always Tell When Someone Makes a Good Snack
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  1. Townies
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  1. LAX to FLL
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  1. Daughter Suspects Dead Mother of Stealing Her Shoes
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  1. Puzzle
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  1. They gave him a manual
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  1. The Right Tool for the Job
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  1. In the Moment
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  1. Everybody Loves Dinner
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  1. The Echo of Love
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  1. The Misunderstood Color
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  1. The Bunny Mother
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  1. Could You Love Me Madly?
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  1. II
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  1. Naming the Puppy
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  1. If You Give a Mouse a Mantra
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  1. Dogs and Poetry
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  1. The Secret Afterlife of Bees
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  1. Lives
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  1. Gwen is Scared of the Wooden Fish
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  1. Progress
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  1. It’s So Hot, I’m Getting Stupid
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  1. Mourning
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  1. A Kinder Death
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  1. Confessions of a Butterfly
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  1. Cooper’s Hawks
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  1. Bee Sting
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  1. Gwen is Scared of the Lemon
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  1. Risk
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  1. Love Hurts
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  1. Anybody’s Animal
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  1. I Am My Own Transgender Fetus
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  1. III
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  1. Alternative Facts
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  1. Shoplifting
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  1. The Delivery Man
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  1. Happy Hour
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  1. Divers Search Lake for Killers’ Secrets
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  1. Marg
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  1. Eavesdropping on Her Neighbors
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  1. Accomplishment
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  1. Dubonnet
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  1. Making Coffee
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  1. Berry & Barris
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  1. Maker’s Mark
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  1. Routine Physical
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  1. Conversation with a Stranger
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  1. Slib
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  1. Dead Tired
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  1. Letter to My Son
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  1. Lunchtime Stroll
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  1. Late September
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  1. “We are like no one else in the world,”
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  1. Completion
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  1. Searching for Your Photo
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  1. Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave
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  1. Biographical note
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