Last night I aged a hundred years : poems / Peter Grandbois.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Grandbois, Peter, author.

Contributor:

• Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

• Richard Snyder publication series ; 24.
• The Richard Snyder publication series ; 24

Language:

English

Genre:

• Poetry.

Physical Description:

79 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ashland, OH : Ashland Poetry Press, [2021]

Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: I. There is nowhere to begin
• A complete and perfect silence
• Because a bird
• Let's begin with what we cannot hear
• Sometimes we are so close
• Nothing ends here
• Sometimes I cease to be the spider
• Housekeeping
• This shuffling across
• When does the moon
• So small this word, a cloud
• There is a mouth that speaks before it stutters
• The kiss
• Who is remember me
• What remains hidden
• II. The dog was not put down
• Drowning
• We are the ones
• I thought I would still my body
• A boy woke one morning with night sweats
• Forget the prayers
• This is not a dream
• Another rainy morning in Ohio
• Ask me
• I am your silence
• The inconsolable wind
• Weather
• Poking through the void
• Though it is dark now my grief
• Silence
• III. Instruction manual for growing old
• Where even the wind
• This poem is not
• Sometimes at night
• Wondering which names to sing
• Tell me how to speak
• There is no beyond
• Lying down to die in a field in Paxton, Massachusetts
• Last night I aged a hundred years
• Sometimes I say what I don't want
• The mud-riddled song of morning
• What gravity wants
• The blue door
• Burning
• The cup we share
• Ten versions of a life
• When I was alive.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

• 9780912592930
• 0912592931

OCLC:

1247833451

Publisher Number:

99988376002

Online:

The Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund Home Page