The woman in the moon / Marjorie Saiser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saiser, Marjorie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Omaha, Nebraska : The Backwaters Press, [2018]

Summary:

2019 Nebraska Book Award The poems in this collection move into the past with her mother and father and also explore the present both with family and culture.The poems range in quick flourishes of conventional subjects rendered in exquisite imagery and observations to everyday occurrences that are suddenly spiked with clear focus and complex.

Contents:

Intro

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

I: Opening to Some Other

The Nobody Bird

I Notice Juxtaposition in America

Message on a Train that Crawls by at the Crossing

Choosing a Tattoo

I Believe in the Dog

Her Brown Horse Must Rise from the Dead

Crane Migration, Platte River

My Love with His Saw Has Taken the Cedar Down

A Room in New York

The Dorothys

Gratis

There's a Door in this World

Suddenly, So Suddenly

As If I'm Going to Live a Hundred Years

II: What Would Flourish Above the Surface

If I Carry My Father

What He Needed

When I Tell You

My Mother the Child

I Learned from Her

She Went to the Fair

Final Shirt

I Put Off Apology, Mother

I Don't Know Which River I Am

We Searched Her House for Money

Hamburgers, Frying

She Didn't Want Another Dog

When She Died

Despair Woke Me

This Is Her Territory, Not Mine

III: Crevice in the Universe

Because I Am So Lonely

The Woman in the Moon

Of My Ancestors I Know This

Today I Write My Son

My Daughter Tells Me She Loves Me

Cardinal/Deer

What Did You Think Love Would Be?

After My Conversation with the Troubled Woman

I Let the Ridiculous in Me

Therapeutic Touch

In the Dark Times, Will There Be Singing?

What I Think My Real Self Likes

About that Smart Thinly Veiled Stuff

My Legs Were Smooth and Bare

Ah, Charles, If You Could Have

Green Ash

I Meant to Be

Each Wrong Choice Was a Horse I Saddled

Even If I Have No Time Lef

Smoke from Kansas

My Notes in Margins

When I'm Reading Late

Dust Storm

I Want More than I Should

Going Through a Box of Old Papers

Looking for Lady Liberty

What I Almost Say to My Sometimes Friend

Talking to Myself as I Drive to the Coffeehouse

As Soon as I Smashed It.

I Tell My True Love about the Bluebird of Happiness

Where the Fox Is

Horses, Free

The Things of this World

When Life Seems a To-Do List

Acknowledgements

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4962-2070-6

OCLC:

1117643641