Spilled and gone : poems / Jessica Greenbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenbaum, Jessica, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 70 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]

Summary:

Jessica Greenbaum is the author of Inventing Difficulty, winner of the Gerald Cable Prize, and The Two Yvonnes. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the NEA and of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America for the poems in Spilled and Gone. She teaches inside and outside academia and lives in her native Brooklyn. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Love You More than All the Windows in New York City p. 3

My Eden Story p. 5

Aubade p. 7

Ode to a Serrated Knife p. 8

April in the First p. 10

Days 10 How Bad Is It? p. 12

Country Mice, during the Order to Separate Families, 2018 p. 13

Food Truck Manifesto p. 15

I Had Just Hung Up from Talking to You p. 16

My Lovely Garonne p. 17

The Storm-Struck Tree p. 18

Elegy for a Tree p. 19

Green Permanent p. 20

For a Traveler p. 21

Day after Memorial Day p. 22

On Good Fortune p. 23

Calling p. 24

Twenty-Two Years Later p. 25

Missing You p. 26

Ode to a Potato Masher p. 27

When You First Met Me p. 29

Years Since We have Traveled p. 30

The First Time p. 31

As So Often Happens p. 32

Days I Delighted in Everything p. 34

Dawning p. 35

A History of Our Possessions p. 36

On the Bus Someday p. 37

Metaphor p. 39

Before the Internet p. 40

Aardvark p. 41

Porcupine p. 42

Ode to a Stovetop Espresso Maker p. 43

Florence Nightingale p. 45

Emily Dickinson's Herbarium at the Morgan Library p. 46

To Bill Zavatsky p. 47

I couldn't seem to take to the young people p. 48

Riga Aubade, May p. 49

A Nearly Perfect Morning p. 50

The Trees Having Tea above Me p. 51

Photo from the Half Year in Kobe p. 52

Everything Must Go p. 53

Route 684, Southbound Rest Stop p. 54

Just As, Just So p. 55

Letter to Jed from Niebla p. 56

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Bans Smoking Indoors, 2003 p. 58

A Day Here p. 60

I Was Waiting for You outside the Post Office p. 61

Ode to Polish Forests p. 62

After All This Time p. 64

Sky inside Brooklyn p. 66

I Took Out the Part p. 67.

Notes:

Cover title.

Poems.

ISBN:

0822965720

9780822965725

OCLC:

1050364401