That place where you opened your hands / Susan Leslie Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Susan Leslie, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 74 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Celebrating the tension between what we imagine and what we know the world to be, Susan Leslie Moore's debut collection moves between certainty and doubt, dead seriousness and determined playfulness. Exploring identity and the exterior and interior selves we create through the natural world, language, and relationships, the poems of That Place Where You Opened Your Hands bring the ordinary rhythms of life and motherhood into coexistence with wilder truths. As Moore writes, "If I can't be singular / in purpose, let me be quietly adrift," but these are not quiet poems"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Beginning p. 3

Inside our house is another house p. 4

I wanted to lie down with you where the rooftops p. 5

No One Knows Her p. 6

Suburb p. 7

To Take p. 9

She preferred to read the knives p. 10

From the Start p. 11

I say to the stars get inside me p. 12

I have tried hard to have appropriate feelings p. 13

II Diary from the Red House p. 17

Why Is Poetry Written in Lines p. 28

From the Naturalist's Notebook: Division p. 29

Bats p. 30

Self-Portrait as Math p. 32

III Her Unpublished Notebooks p. 35

From the Naturalist's Notebook: Propagation p. 38

Every Day Is a New Day p. 39

The Fuchsia, the Orange, and the Dahlias p. 40

Maria p. 41

Hedges p. 42

Prayer p. 43

I dreamt I was your cat and then the night p. 44

Eat or Be Eaten p. 45

Horizon means a line where the body p. 46

To Define: Fetch p. 47

It's Me p. 48

For the Newly Cinematic p. 49

Cleaning House While Listening to a Tape of Anne Sexton p. 50

Down at the Heels in the Ditch p. 51

I am climbing into bed with a stiff drink p. 52

IV [O my mechanical heart] p. 55

[My mouth is the freshest vegetable] p. 56

[Which crow would you give up] p. 57

[To say the sky was mine] p. 58

[If the dirt didn't love the trees] p. 59

Eve p. 60

Prayer p. 61

Owl among the Ruins p. 62

Sonnet p. 63

Landscape without Figures p. 64

Sight Comes to Owls Slowly p. 65

Still Life, with Brick p. 66

Once p. 67

Change the house I used to live in, its doors and windows p. 68

Telescope versus Microscope p. 69

(Surrender) p. 70.

Notes:

Juniper Prize in Poetry, 2019

ISBN:

9781625345103

1625345100

OCLC:

1122694669