You darling thing / Monica Ferrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferrell, Monica, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Courtship--Poetry.

Courtship.

Marriage--Poetry.

Marriage.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

70 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Tribeca : Four Way Books, [2018]

Summary:

Guided by a poem assembled from “compliments” paid by a suitor to his girlfriend (which echo the endearments Anna Karenina's Count Vronsky directs toward his racehorse, before she collapses under his weight and is shot), You Darling Thing investigates bridehood and the concept of the vow through the voices of a variety of brides, ex-brides, courtesans, and wives. The book is ultimately less about marriage than about potentiality and promise, an engagement with what seems possible before it stops being possible-anticipation at the outset of a hunt, embryos that stay unborn, youthful predictions for a life before it's lived, and delight in the expressive possibilities afforded by language and art.

Contents:

Date p. 3

Waves p. 5

In the Fetus Museum p. 6

Anatomy p. 7

Savage Bride p. 9

Pony p. 10

Oh You Absolute Darling p. 12

Poetry p. 15

Tourist Bride p. 16

Invention of the Bride p. 17

Glacier p. 19

Hour of Sacrifice p. 21

Laudanum p. 23

Sleeping Husband p. 24

Bride Dressed in Fur and Steam p. 25

In the Fetus Museum p. 26

Emma Bovary p. 27

Planet p. 28

L'heure Verte p. 29

Aquarium p. 30

Invention of the Bridegroom p. 31

Harem Song p. 32

King with his Queen p. 34

Beatrice D'este p. 36

Beautiful Funeral p. 38

Physical p. 40

Last Wolf in St. Petersburg p. 43

In the Fetus Museum p. 44

Betrothal p. 45

Epithalamium p. 46

Waking p. 47

Bride of the False Coin p. 48

Heliopause p. 49

Lace World p. 51

Arachne p. 53

Tiger Abandoned at the Hunt's End p. 55

Bride of Ruin p. 61

A Funfair in Hell p. 62

Bride in Winter p. 63

Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even p. 65

Of the Irresolubleness of Diamonds p. 67

Days of Oakland p. 69.

Notes:

"A Stahlecker series selection"-Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781945588228

1945588225

OCLC:

1027771592

Publisher Number:

40028446233

99979066944