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I Say the Sky : Poems / Nadia Colburn.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Colburn, Nadia, author.
Series:
University Press of Kentucky new poetry and prose series.
University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American poetry--21st century.
American poetry.
Genre:
poetry.
Poetry.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (104 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2024]
Summary:
"In poems at once profound and accessible, Nadia Colburn finds splendor and astonishment in a natural world--and a human world--that is deeply troubled yet still majestically beautiful. Both elegy and celebration, I Say the Sky addresses some of the most challenging aspects of human existence, from childhood trauma to environmental devastation, and discovers, in unexpected and clear-sighted ways, wisdom, wonder, and peace. Colburn's [...] second book charts a journey to meet the self. From girlhood to parenthood, loss to discovery, in poems that sing, the book explores how meaning is made. Claiming the female voice from silence, the poems find their grounding in the body and achieve rootedness and hope."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Cover
Praise for I Say the Sky
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
I Think It Is Such a Beautiful
Upflying
Smaller Even than Last Week
The End of History
Adulthood
4 a.m.
The Physical World
Anxiety
What We Are Taught
Memory
And the Small Body
Catalog of Beautiful Girls
Stone Girl
Sleeping Beauty
Rage
Knowing
Reading to My Daughter
Know
On My 43rd Birthday
Summer Evening
Hands
Teach Me
On the Shortest Day of the Year
March
Imaginary World
My Throat
Outside the Sparrows Are Awake
Happiness
6 p.m.
Invocation
When Death Comes
August
Arrival
Onion
Today Like Yesterday
Amid So Much Suffering, Do I Dare Be Happy?
Midwinter
Power
May I Greet You
Rain Pours off the Eaves of the House
12 a.m.
You
Postscript
Acknowledgments
Series page.
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
0-8131-9865-8

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