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This third collection of Susan Snively's poetry has themes of memories. It includes ""The Speed of the Drift"", a 19-poem sequence, which features lost friends and lovers, casualties of history, figures from art and myth, and stories of illness and death.
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Winner of the 2013 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeBest Bones is a house. When you walk around the rooms of the house, you overhear the desires and griefs of a family, as well as the unresolved concerns of lingering ghosts. The various voices in the house struggle against the family roles and social identities that they must wear like heavy garments - mother, father, wife, husband, sister, brother, servant, and master. All these voices crave unification; they want to join themselves into one whole sentient being, into "a mansion steering itself."The poems in Best Bones also explore the experience of living in a physical body, and how the natural world intersects with manmade landscapes and technologies. In it, mother has a reset button, servants blend into the furniture, and a doctor patiently oversees the pregnancy of the earth.In these poems, the body is a working machine, a repository of childhood myth and archetype, and a window to the spiritual world. The poems strive to be visceral on the level of dream, or of a story that is half remembered and half fabricated.
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• [Part 1.] Reunion: Fox tails
• The grove
• Reunion
• The coming of light.

• [Part 2.] Testament to nature: Sacrament
• Blood sacrifice
• Offering from the earth
• The beginning
• We are of the water
• Miracles
• The knowing
• The faith of life.

• [Part 3.] Revelations: Birth
• The eyes
• Beyond the wall
• My body wakes
• Three streams
• Far fetch
• The word
• Weavings
• Ardent spirits
• Bilateral symmetry
• And did I once-- and did you?
• The stream
• Or not to be
• To love is to teach.

"Tesoro is a story of family, survival, and the formative power of the women in Salgado's life. It is a telling of the balance between love and perseverance. Tesoro is an unearthing of the sacred connections that make a person whole; the treasure we forever keep with us when we learn from those we love, when we mourn those we've lost, and what grows in between."-- Provided by publisher.

Gathered from over thirty years of work, the poems in this generous selection strike a dynamic balance of honesty, emotion, intellectual depth and otherworldly resonance - in Gizzi's work, poetry itself becomes a primary ground of human experience. Haunted, vibrant and saturated with luminous detail, Gizzi enlists the American vernacular in a magical and complex music. Sky Burial is an immensely valuable introduction to his work.
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• Another antipastoral
• White Mountain
• Happy?
• Altruism
• Cracks along the Outer Banks
• Emancipation
• Taking it
• A flight of swiftlets made their way in
• The accountant
• Approaching fifty
• Shall we gather & what
• Like Jesus to the crows
• Fallen
• Keys
• Skinned
• Salt
• Epicurean
• How delicious to say it
• The ledge
• Imprint
• Visiting the house on Long Island
• Cake baby
• Break
• Circe after the feast of kine
• Waterfire
• A song on the ridge
• All the fuss over a rose
• Wolf
• Lightnin' over fir
• Bluster
• Grasp
• Seen through
• Paradise
• Tintype
• She whose brothers turned to swans pleads her case
• Still life with dead game
• The old master
• On the last day
• Inevitability
• To another
• Apologia
• Nightjar
• Her mouth
• Consider the prince as he considered her mouth
• Having never told the tarot reader my question, she answers it
• Gutted
• Black river
• Join
• Flying over pigeon river
• All kinds of howlin'
• Beast & beauty
• Husband fair
• A small poem
• Chimera.

Another Anti-Pastoral, " the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes "words fail." With a "bleat in [her] throat, " the poet identifies with the voiceless and wild things in the composed, imposed peace of the Romantic poets with whom she is in dialogue. Vievee Francis's poems engage many of the same concerns as her poetic predecessors-faith in a secular age, the city and nature, aging, and beauty. Words certainly do not fail as Francis sets off into the wild world promised in the title. The wild here is not chaotic but rather free and finely attuned to its surroundings. The reader who joins her will emerge sensitized and changed by the enduring power of her work.
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• Joseph Stroud
• Kay Ryan
• Gary Young
• Martha Ronk
• Michael Hannon.

• Joseph Stroud: Lodestone
• The room above the white rose
• Walking
• Death in the Tehachapis
• City
• First law of thermodynamics
• A winter's tale.

• Kat Ryan: Tune
• Things shouldn't be so hard
• The best of it
• The edges of time
• Bitter pill
• Doubt
• Spiderweb.

• Gary Young: It's a joy to be subtracted
• When I was a young man
• The roads were closed
• We'd been talking about the limits
• When I step from the deck
• The skunks and deer
• The earth submits.

• Martha Ronk: "I cannot remember anything about this journey other than this"
• "This sense of numbness soon came over me"
• "The sounds in and of themselves were less like the sounds of anyone"
• "I sat at the window and watched it cover everything by nightfall"
• "I was astonished at the mysterious slow motion quality of the sound"
• "It was a photograph of a house quite like any other I had inhabited"
• "It seemed to all of us as remarkably like suspension in time."

• Michael Hannon: At the crossroad
• Thanksgiving
• Beyond freedom
• Pure luck
• Solstice --Divided self
• Aftermath.