Sun in days : poems /
From the acclaimed poet and critic Meghan O'Rourke comes a powerful collection about the frailty of the body, the longing for a child and the philosophical questions raised when the body goes dramatically awry. In formally ambitious poems and lyric essays, Sun in Days gives voice to the experie...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- I
- Self-portrait as myself ; Sun in days ; Dread ; Mnemonic ; Addict galerie ; The night where you no longer live ; Ever ; Mistaken self-portrait as persephone in the desert ; Expecting ; Miscarriage ; Mistaken self-portrait as mother of an unmade daughter ; At Pere Lachaise ; Interlude (Posthumous)
- II
- What it was like ; Idiopathic illnes ; Human-sized pain ; Poem (Problem) ; A note on process
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- Some aspects of red and black in particular ; Mistaken self-portrait as demeter in Paris ; Poem of regret for an old friend ; Mistaken self-portrait as Meriwether Lewis ; Unnatural essay ; Navesink ; The body in the age of mechanical reproduction ; Mortals ; Poem for my son ; The window at arles ; How to be.