Dearly : new poems
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
Physical Description
124 pages ; 24 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
The internationally acclaimed author presents her first collection of poetry in over a decade that addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, nature, and zombies.
Contents
- Late poems
- Ghost cat
- Salt
- Passports
- Blizzard
- Coconut
- Souvenirs
- The Tin Woodman gets a massage
- If there were no emptiness
- Health class (1953)
- A genre painting
- Princess clothing
- Cicadas
- Double-entry slug sex
- Everyone else's sex life
- Betrayal
- Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday
- Cassandra considers declining the gift
- Shadow
- Songs for murdered sisters: Empty chair ; Enchantment ; Anger ; Dream ; Bird soul ; Lost ; Rage ; Coda: Song
- The dear ones
- Digging up the Scythians
- September mushrooms
- Carving the jacks
- A drone scans the wreckage
- Aflame
- Update on werewolves
- Zombie
- The aliens arrive
- Siren brooding on her eggs
- Spider signatures
- At the translation conference
- Walking in the madman's wood
- Feather
- Fatal light awareness
- Fear of birds
- Short takes on wolves
- Table settings
- Improvisation on a first line by Yeats
- "Heart of the Arctic"
- Plasticene suit: Rock-like object on beach ; Faint hopes ; Foliage ; Midway Island albatross ; Editorial notes ; Sorcerer's apprentice ; Whales ; Little robot ; The bright side
- Tracking the rain
- Oh children
- The twilight of the gods
- This fiord looks like a lake
- One day
- Sad utensils
- Winter vacations
- Hayfoot
- Mr. lionheart
- Invisible man
- Silver slippers
- Within
- Flatline
- Disenchanted corpse
- Dearly
- Blackberries.