Please bury me in this / Allison Benis White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Allison Benis, 1972- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

52 pages ; 23 cm

Distribution:

Lebanon, NH : University Press of New England.

Place of Publication:

Tribeca : Four Way Books, [2017]

Contents:

"Underneath each seat was a small box ..." 3

"Like a string of glass beads ..." 4

"Looking up in the dark I thought ..." 5

"I am not any closer to saying what I mean." 6

"Dear Kitty, Dear God, Dear Lucifer." 7

"I mean my head is a napkin folded into a swan." 8

"Now my neighbor through the wall ..." 9

"Maybe the pain is see-through, clicking." 10

"I am writing to you as an act of immolation ..." 13

"Daydreaming and soon, between my fingers ..." 14

"Reaching in to touch its spine ..." 15

"Like the coldness of the body ..." 16

"I am drawing a window in the air around my face." 17

"Even the word, depression ..." 18

"Or love: to be injured in the same way at the same time." 19

"Tell me the first thing you loved ..." 23

"In a letter found buried near a gas chamber:" 24

"And just near enough to read her neck ..." 25

"Maybe my arms lifted ..." 26

"Then lightly, in green pencil, animal loneliness." 27

"In the museum of sadness, in the museum of light-" 28

"Often a string, attached to a bell on a headstone ..." 29

"Asked by her husband on her deathbed ..." 30

"As if death was a place ..." 33

"I have seen my own breath in the cold." 34

"Paper of the body, I pray, the mind." 35

"Looking down at the floor afterward ..." 36

"Another beautiful thing: the curtain of red beads ..." 37

"In other words, it is better to be hungry." 38

"Or I could touch my face with blood on my fingertips-" 39

"I would say a mind made of snow." 40

"Maybe I have had my vision." 41

"Pinned to a dress in Julia's closet ..." 45

"I don't know how to explain the mouth anymore." 46

"Until the poem becomes a house ..." 47

"Even looking at pictures of a bride ..." 48

"Like a lake on fire ..." 49

"Almost a star of blood ... 50

"I am writing to you as an act of ending." 51

"Or a swan's neck above an hourglass ..." 52.

ISBN:

9781935536833

1935536834

OCLC:

957704999

Publisher Number:

99972271070