In Praise of Falling.
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Intro -- Contents -- I. Theories -- It's not Armageddon -- Atlantis -- Don't Miss It -- Bernal Heights -- "A Soldier's Home, Hughes, Arkansas, 1970" -- Theories -- Prayer for Sleep -- American Robin -- Teaching Luca Mr. Potato Head -- On the first day of class -- Moon, Jacket, Yellow, Tree, Violin -- II. Changing Room -- The Storyteller's Daughter -- Killing -- The Amnesiac, Seventh Grade -- Chosen -- Stars -- The Hill -- Clarissa's Great Aunt -- Changing Room -- Triangle Tattoo -- Hard Labor -- III. Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep -- Foundling -- Nightmare Predicting Change -- Recurring -- Junk Shop Magic -- True -- Afterbirth -- Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep -- Other Nights -- Revisited -- Narrative -- IV. Say Yes -- In Praise of Falling -- Meteorology -- The Swimmer -- Wetlands -- Don't Ask Me -- When -- If -- Q to the 6 Train -- Creature -- Dark Magic -- Getting It Right This Time -- Say Yes -- Acknowledgments.
Winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeEnacting the Zen proverb "fall down seven times, get up eight," this collection explores the ways we fall--through disillusionment, disappointment, and plain, old-fashioned mistakes, and the ways we rise up--out of personal debacles, unfortunate circumstances, family legacies, and collective struggles.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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