In the guesthouse of my body / poems by Natalie Safir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Safir, Natalie, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 69 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Loveland, Ohio : Dos Madres Press Inc., 2021.

Summary:

In her seventh collection, Natalie Safir confronts the unstoppable flow of time and circumstances - the diminishments of aging and personal loss. These poems turn searchlights on her troublesome heart as in "The Heart's Conversation," and "How Heart Beats," 'A tired fire of muscle,' on family incidents from the past, 'I moved toward her as a key/when there was no door', observations of the natural world, and to the darkly comic present with wit, irony and courage.

Contents:

Part I

The Drill Point p. 1

The Other Side p. 2

Hard Heart of Morning p. 3

Sleeping with Knives p. 4

How Heart Beats p. 5

The Heart's Conversation p. 6

This Old Body I Wear p. 8

Sore Eyes p. 9

The Way of the Thirteen Afflictions p. 10

We Had Dreams That Ran All Night p. 11

Relief p. 12

Reconciling Selves p. 13

Part II

The Silences p. 17

Visitors After Midnight p. 18

Visitors After 2 A.M p. 22

Overnight in the Guesthouse of My Body p. 26

Part III

One Peconic Summer p. 31

At the Ocean Shore p. 32

After a Brutal Winter p. 33

Skating at the Edge of Dark p. 34

The Lusty Winter-Lover p. 35

Crazy Wonderful p. 36

Woman Speaks to Whomever p. 37

Colors Are p. 39

How Is It to Be? p. 40

Road Accidents p. 41

Woodpecker and Squirrel p. 42

Part IV

A Question I Have to Ask p. 45

A Brief Goodbye p. 46

What She Wanted p. 47

I Had a Brother p. 48

Disclosed p. 49

Disappearing into the Jack of Hearts p. 51

A Shy Flirtation p. 52

Standfast p. 53

Together p. 55

The Ones Who Say I'll Be There Later Never Come p. 57

What Was I Doing? p. 58

Astray in a Dark Wood p. 59

Talk in the Air p. 61

By the Third Act p. 63

Defeated by Invisibility p. 64

Out of the Cross Hairs p. 65

If You Live Along the Shores of a Great River p. 66

The Return p. 67.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781953252227

1953252222

OCLC:

1262134046

Publisher Number:

99988796769