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Book

Here is the sweet hand : poems

Call Number

  • 811 H3141 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

Physical Description

86 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"A new collection of poems from the author of allegiance"--

Contents

  • Part 1. Versal
  • Reflections in a pool of hair
  • The meek
  • Limulus Polyphemus
  • Ask me now and I would say
  • What milkman leaps for
  • Abortion
  • Against storm, against glip thunder
  • She is what I undo
  • The fat of the fog hovers over
  • Rabbit
  • Here is the sweet hand you always turn back on yourself
  • Language works over information
  • Junebug
  • Barycenter
  • Single lines looking forward or one monostich past 45
  • Anise swallowtail, molting
  • Part 2. I won't beg
  • Sonata in F Minor, K.183: Allegro
  • Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op.8, RV 315 "L'estate" : I. Allegro mà non molto
  • Unaccompanied cello suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: IV. Sarabande
  • Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3 No. 2: prelude in C-Sharp Minor
  • So is we thinking up new ways to fuck, or nah
  • White people eating white food
  • I cleaned the house
  • Unlike my sister
  • Stand up
  • Tardigrade
  • The neighbor's buddy through the window
  • The day after 12 Years a Slave
  • It is a choice (because Kanye)
  • Oregon Trail, Missouri
  • It takes
  • Forestbathing (or Trees)
  • My hair is falling out
  • That scene in Killer of Sheep when
  • Ablate the suncups, not the ice: an incantation
  • Curtains
  • Self-portrait as good samaritan.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.