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Lisa Fay Coutley’s lyrical debut collection, Errata, investigates the delicate balance between parent and child, love and loss, hope and grief. Errata’s narrator reflects on struggles and fears that span generations in compositions that are at once musical and bleak. Coutley’s narrative journey is often a dark one, exploring not only the loss of loved ones but also the potential to lose one’s very self. The collection unravels the lingering consequences of abuse and addiction, yet threads of hope and determination weave a finely wrought path through the dark side of human relationships, illuminating the power of the will to survive. Coutley’s sharp yet tender collection will both haunt readers and move them to reflect, to remember, and most of all, to persevere.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. i-viii
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  1. Contents
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. one
  1. Shooting Geese,
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  1. Elegy for a Skinwalker
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  1. Ode to the Bottle
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  1. Driving Drunk, & a Dozen White Crosses
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  1. Researchers Find Mice Pass On Trauma to Subsequent Generations
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  1. Dear Morpheus—
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  1. Posing for Aunt Sandy
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  1. Emptying the Red Vase
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  1. Why to Bury a Parrot
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  1. The Way the Plot
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  1. Respiration
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  1. On Home
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  1. Coffee
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  1. Dirty Fruit
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  1. Listen
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  1. During the Final Scene
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  1. Her Father Says She Worries Too Much
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  1. Chicken Soup
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  1. After the Fire / for Channer
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  1. Sadly, There Was No Dog Bite
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  1. Goodbye in the Voice of My Father
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  1. Self-Portrait as Pyrocumulonimbus
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  1. Woman from Water
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  1. My Lake
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  1. In Which Dorothy Appears
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  1. Driving Up-Canyon with My Two Teen Sons
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  1. Commute
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  1. In the Carnival of Breathing
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  1. Twelve Days Scrubbing the Dead
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  1. Careo
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  1. Self-Portrait as Mountains Surrounding a Dry Lakebed
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  1. Ash over Utah
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  1. The Lapidary Speaks
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  1. Patientia
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  1. Errata
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  1. Family Portrait as the Language of Disaster
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  1. Love & Squall
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  1. When He Comes at Me
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  1. Ode to Postpartum
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  1. Small Break in the Cirrocumulus
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  1. To Sleep
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  1. View from the High Road
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  1. My Desert
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  1. Barefoot on the Pulpit
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  1. For My First Dog
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  1. Notes
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  1. Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
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