Boneyard heresies : poems /
"Boneyard Heresies, Tina Schumann's forth poetry collection. is an investigation of personhood as seen through the prisms of magical thinking, grief, the dreamland of memory, and the vagaries of love. These often self-deprecating and at times darkly humorous inquiries are built around a sc...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Springfield, Missouri :
Moon City Press,
2025.
|
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Section 1. The clean white shirt of it. Self-portrait as unreliable narrator ; A world of want ; Why I read the obits ; Just yesterday the crows ; That feeling you're feeling is called languishing ; Self-portrait as pathetic fallacy ; Dear bitter old woman of my future self ; Poem in which I become my own fairytale ; Dear morning commuters ; Body and soul ; Restoration ; October 2021 ; Isolation affirmation ; Midair ; Self-portrait with blacktop, heron, and doubt ; Melancholy and joy walk into a bar ; Letter of introduction ; Nothing personal ; To my normal-sized heart ; Self-portrait as barn seen from the freeway ; Dear eternal state of waiting
- section 2. That particular light of reverie. Self-portrait as the sacred and profane ; In the beginning ; Inquiry: origin ; The poet at fourteen ; White jeans, so clean ; Things my mother told me ; El Salvador 1972 ; Last call ; Recall ; A call for haze ; Terrain of naught ; Gone ; Not dead but lost ; Self-portrait with flying omens ; Verissimo ; Interlude ; Vigil ; Father, dead one year ; I am a time machine ; To my parents in reverse ; Letter to my more forgiving self
- section 3. Irrevocable, fragile, radiant, blind. Self-portrait as central conceit ; When does happiness arrive ; Catastrophizing: a love story ; Retrospective: a tragic comedy ; That's life ; Letter of recommendation ; Self-portrait as marginalia ; To whom it may concern ; Learning to fall ; When I think of the body ; And sometimes reeling back ; We are mostly restlessness and open space ; Self-portrait as shut-in ; Abecedarian looking at sixtey ; Worlds colliding ; Letter of resignation ; Seven ways of looking at a corkscrew ; Only then ; Dear planners of my funeral.