Laws of my nature : poems / by Margot Schilpp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schilpp, Margot

Language:

English

Physical Description:

79 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Margot Schilpp's first collection of poems, The World's Last Night, was published by Carnegie Mellon in 2001. Her work has appeared widely in journals, including The Southern Review, Denver Quarterly, Chelsea, and Shenandoah. While earning her M.F.A. at the University of Utah, she edited the literary journal Quarterly West. She lives in Connecticut.

Contents:

What Narrative Is For 7

Taking Leave of My Senses 9

Journey 11

If You Agree I'm Telling the Story 14

Of Darwin, the Color Green, and Spring's Arrival 16

Trompe l'Oeil 18

American Blue 20

What Isn't Real Is Real Enough 22

River of Me 24

In the Parlor of Instructions: Want 25

Courting the Horizon 27

Of Stars and Water and Instructions for Observing Both 30

What I'll Know 32

Takeover 34

Ouija 36

Laws of My Nature 39

Poem in Which I Am My Evil Twin 41

Words from East of West 42

Exile 44

Solving for the Plain Truth 47

Vantage Points 49

Equilibrium 51

Reaching Danger 53

Ghost Ships 55

Sunday Lyric 57

Prayer 58

After the Cocktail Hours 59

Words a Hospitality 60

How Time Passes in the Middle Age 62

Coming Apart, Together 64

Spring Burials 66

Apples and Oranges 68

Revisiting Gauguin 70

Never-Never 72

Working Through the Codes 74

My Compass Will Not Orient 76

For the Cormorants Whose Necks Are Loosely Tied with String So They May Not Swallow Their Catch 78.

ISBN:

0887484204

OCLC:

58919330