The exchange / poetry by Sophie Cabot Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Sophie Cabot, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

75 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2013.

Summary:

In The Exchange, poet Sophie Cabot Black explores the surprising interplay between mortality and money, between the next world and this one, between the language of disease and the language of finance. Following a beloved friend through long illness and eventual loss, these poems confront with stark emotion the aftermath, even as the outside world-the world of debts paid and collected, of power and dominion- intrudes. Hers is a look behind the curtain where exchanges are made, where deals slip, mislead, and finally break. What is gained and what is sacrificed, and how can those profits and losses be measured, when the currency involved is love? Book jacket.

Contents:

I

Already Broken 7

Diagnosis 8

Biopsy 9

Chemotherapy 10

Settling 11

The Son 12

Somewhere in New Jersey is the Center 13

High Finance 14

What You Haw to Tell 15

Again the Hospital 16

When it Comes 17

Gate 18

Sheetrock 20

Real Estate 21

Private Equity 22

To Market 23

Love Poem 24

Where We Are Being What We Made 25

Summit 26

Seeking Alpha 27

Closer 28

II

Bird at a Window 31

Atheism 32

Analysis 33

Eat What You Kill 34

Enough 35

The Suit 36

Given Pornography 37

Online Again 39

Turning Away 40

Preservation of Capital 41

That Which Gathers Us in 42

Spread 43

What You Wait For 44

Finally He Speaks About Dying 46

When I Call You 47

Lucy Made a Mask in Rehab 48

Dark Harbor 49

Moving in the Almost 50

The One Turn that Makes the New World 51

Dominion Over the Larger Animal 52

Looking for Bataille 53

Statue of Victory Halfway Up the Stair 54

As Disciple 55

From Stone 56

Accident 57

Leverage 58

Getting to the End 59

Man Overboard 60

It Never Goes Away 61

You Said it Was Not 62

Bird Left Behind 63

Palms Facing Out and Away from the Body 64

I Have Talked Too Much 66

Our House 67

Pay Attention 68.

ISBN:

9781555976415

1555976417

OCLC:

812068777