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- Jagged with Love
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
- Series: The Brittingham Prize in Poetry
summary
Susanna Childress writes with an earnest desire to understand things physical and things spiritual. What results is a first collection of provocative, honest poetry that explores various human predicaments: a cancer-ridden wife, an explosive father, an infertile couple, various sexual aggressors, a missing girl. Such careful portraiture provokes the reader to consider the complexity of human love: how selfishness, fear, lust and even brutality might coincide with tenderness and loyalty. Ms. Childress's writing is refreshingly naive and clear, her voice essentially inquisitive. She is brave enough to look at the darkness of the world, but she is more courageous to hope.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- I. Just Wanted To Show You A Picture of Myself
- Lost in the Cant
- p. 8
- Prose, I Say, Plasma
- p. 10
- Inside a Thin Egg
- pp. 11-12
- Supernova Love Shah
- p. 14
- Sprezzatura
- pp. 15-16
- I Inspect My Face
- p. 17
- II. Jagged With Love
- It's the First Thing
- p. 23
- Old Country Woman
- p. 25
- Jagged with Love
- pp. 27-28
- Out Smarting
- pp. 29-30
- Last April
- pp. 31-33
- Christmas, 2000
- pp. 34-35
- Kulibongbong for Lydia
- pp. 37-38
- III. A Rush of Bees
- In Indiana
- p. 41
- Like the Nudes of Lucian Freud
- pp. 42-43
- A Rush of Bees
- pp. 45-46
- The Surgery
- pp. 47-48
- Sneaking Up on a Wildness
- pp. 49-50
- My Husband Giving Me a Bath
- pp. 51-52
- Every Dance with Caroline
- pp. 57-58
- God Is the Dream
- pp. 59-62
- IV. House of Bread
- Muchas Gracias, My Love
- pp. 68-69
- Unearthing
- pp. 72-76
- To Jill Behrman, November 2000
- pp. 78-79
- To Jill Behrman, March 2003
- pp. 80-81
- We Take the Sky
- pp. 82-83
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299212636
Related ISBN(s)
9780299212605
MARC Record
OCLC
813844035
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2012-09-21
Language
English
Open Access
No