Dear terror, dear splendor / Melissa Crowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowe, Melissa, author.

Series:

Wisconsin poetry series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

vi, 90 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2019]

Contents:

I

French Food p. 5

The Uncles p. 7

Kissing Lessons p. 9

Cirque du Crève-Cæur p. 11

Mourning Portrait for Uncle Steve p. 13

Old Man and Nurse p. 16

Instead of Prayer p. 17

Minimalists Manifesto p. 19

A Laying On of Hands p. 21

II

Grounded p. 25

Epithalamium with Acrobats p. 27

Southbound Epithalamium p. 29

Love Song to a Cashier p. 30

Elegy with F Words p. 31

Places on the Body p. 32

Elegy for Fireflies p. 36

Waiting Song with Dioramas p. 38

Early Labor with Ice Storm p. 40

III.

Postnatal Epithalamium p. 43

I Watch Nature While Breastfeeding p. 45

Labor Aubade p. 46

Bruise p. 48

Echo location p. 49

Epithalamium with Trigger Warning p. 51

Damage p. 52

St ah at Mater Dolorosa p. 53

Love Song with Vehophobia p. 56

How to Pray without Ceasing p. 58

IV.

Apologia with Generalized Anxiety Disorder p. 61

Skydiver p. 65

Forgiftet Garden p. 67

Still Life with Geese and Oxycontin p. 69

Love Song with Helplessness p. 70

The War, the War, Christmas p. 71

Norn de Guerre p. 73

One Reason to Stay p. 74

Meanwhile p. 76

Dear Terror, Dear Splendor p. 78

Perpetual Beginner p. 80

V

Some Say the World p. 83.

ISBN:

9780299321444

0299321444

OCLC:

1052902463