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