The rented altar / Lauren Berry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berry, Lauren, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

75 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : C & R Press, [2020]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ENGAGEMENT

1019 Myrtle Furrow Lane

The Ever After Bridal Store

My Fiance's First Wife Sews Lingerie For My Wedding Night

The Rented Altar

Vow In Which We Tie Our Hands Behind Our Backs

The Game of Make-Believe

White Picket Fence and Black Coffee

HONEYMOON

Honeymoon Island

The Same Scrawled Question

Where My Mind Went During the First Ultrasound

The Bar of Dove Soap His First Wife Left Behind

My Husband Presses My Cheek Against the Bedroom Wall's Wet Paint

First Anniversary

A More Subtle Ache

Ritual

I Have Been Everything In the Fairy Tale Except the King and the Prince

LABOR

Family Portrait with My Stepson's Heel Against My Stomach

Labor Day Weekend at Captiva Island

Family Portrait at the Neighborhood Pool

The Flowers Between Our Houses Won't Stop Swelling

In My Paper Gown I Press My Mouth Against the Window

A Stepmother Wonders at a Boy Not Made of Ivory

The Playground Where I Take the Boy When I Can't Sleep

Red Geraniums

Why Should I Plant That When I Know It Won't Last?

Things I Have Said to the Red Roses His First Wife Planted

What I Want Them to Say About Me the Next Time I Lose a Baby

The Bedroom is a Labyrinth I Am Lost Inside

The Master Bathroom Renovation

SPLINTER

Things I Have Said to My Husband - or - The Grief of a Wooden Fence In a Field

A Husband Eavesdrops As His Wife Confides In a Box of Matches

When Strangers Ask, "Don't You Want Any Real Children?"

In My Wedding Heels, I Buy Frozen Blackberries For a Pie

My Husband Burns My Clothes In the Driveway

Contemplating an Affair

Double-Blind

A Husband Dares His Wife to Have an Affair

My Husband Brings Home a Terrarium

My Husband's Sleep

We Gave Ourselves the Summer to Find the Spark.

ISBN:

9781949540147

1949540146

OCLC:

1162479241

Publisher Number:

99987275916