Crocus.

Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I -- The Exile's Tale -- Threshold -- Echo -- The Ghos -- The Lure of the Exotic -- The Raspberry Room -- Our Lady of the Briars -- The Otter -- I was in bed all day with the sun -- Insomnia -- Inheritance -- Keeping House -- The Older Man -- The Talaria -- Pot Washing at Le Lapin d'Or -- A Fable -- Part II -- The Revenant -- The Bog Body -- Mallards -- Whether -- Roanoke -- The Riddle -- Through and Through Me -- Cold Front -- Unborn -- Summer -- The Stone -- Tender -- The Ministry of Snow -- The Ashes -- A Walking Tour -- The Lost World -- Part III -- The Current -- The Alice Experiment -- Blizzard -- Let's hold it again to the light: -- The Creation of Rain -- Despite Myself -- Unreliable Clock -- The Grassland -- At the Window -- Describing the Bliss.

The poems in Crocus take as their starting points the interior universes created by myth, art, and memory, and through the exploration of these terrains create new ways of understanding the ordinary. Finding voice through both lyric and narrative approaches, Gottshall's poems are filled with complex music, unexpected imagery, and the mysterious interplay between the physical world and that of the imagination. These are lyrics that briefly and beautifully change our view of the world. In this effort, they do a quietly wild, beguilingly sudden work of making us rethink the ordinary before we can help ourselves, followed by the unnerving next part that hits us consequentiallyGwe live in this world they are describing, though we had thought that we understood it perfectly well already.-Albert Rios.

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