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- The Rival
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Utah Press
Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize
In The Rival, Sara Wallace takes her readers on an intimate journey through a woman’s solitary, surreal rural childhood and her brutal, sexually fraught first marriage to the conflicted redemption she finds in motherhood and a second chance at love. In this debut poetry collection, Wallace reveals how closely emotional devastation and transcendence can coexist. The Rival is sensuous, darkly humorous, and frequently luminous in its unflinching exploration of the inner life.
Table of Contents
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- I.
- It Is Beautiful
- pp. 3-4
- Black Iris
- p. 7
- Blind Date
- p. 8
- White Gold
- pp. 9-12
- Some Kind of Small Yellow Flower
- pp. 16-17
- We Slept Naked
- pp. 18-20
- II.
- Sublimation
- p. 23
- What Happened to Me
- p. 24
- Adolescence
- p. 27
- Newly Green Fields
- p. 28
- Domestic Shortrthair
- p. 29
- Take This Old Coat
- pp. 30-32
- The North Place
- p. 36
- III.
- The One Blessed Thing
- pp. 39-40
- Nine Planets
- pp. 44-46
- Stanzas for My Son
- pp. 50-52
- IV.
- The Grieving
- p. 60
- Anywhere I’d Want to Be
- pp. 64-65
- To My Analyst
- p. 66
- Mulberry Strtreet
- pp. 67-68
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 69-70
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