| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
81 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ignorance of the law is no excuse -- O fortuna -- Affordable variety -- Days of reckoning -- Wastrel -- Coma berenices -- The new higher -- In those days -- A visit to the house of fools -- Dryness of mouth -- Involuntary description -- Hölderlin marginalia -- Told her to get on with it -- The weather, for example -- And counting -- You spoke as a child -- Interesting people of Newfoundland -- Broken tulips -- Retro -- Capital O -- Annuals and perennials -- Wolf ridge -- When I saw the invidious flare -- Heavy home -- The situation upstairs -- Well-lit places -- Meaningful love -- More feedback -- Lost footage -- The red easel -- Novelty love trot -- The template -- From China to Peru -- Idea of the forest -- The injured party -- A darning egg -- Wild city -- The bled weasel -- A below-par star -- The snow-stained petals aren't pretty any more -- Tension in the rocks -- Counterpane -- Two million violators -- Sonnet : more of same -- The love interest -- Composition -- Like most seas -- New concerns -- The lost train -- In the time of cherries -- Where shall I wander. |
| Summary |
You meant more than life to me. I lived through you not knowing, not knowing I was living. I learned that you called for me. I came to where you were living, up a stair. There was no one there. No one to appreciate me. The legality of it upset a chair. Many times to celebrate we were called together and where we had been there was nothing there, nothing that is anywhere. We passed obliquely, leaving no stare. When the sun was done muttering, in an optimistic way, it was time to leave that there. |
| Awards |
National Book Award Finalist, 2005. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| ISBN |
0060765291 (alk. paper) |
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9780060765293 (alk. paper) |
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