Never Before Poems about First Experiences

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ISBN: 9781884800603

ISBN-10: 1884800602

ISBN-13: 9781884800603

Edition: 2005

Authors: Laure-Anne Bosselaar

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First haircuts, first kisses, firstborn, children. Never Before: Poems About First Expenses explores the ways in which the unknown becomes known. These poems evoke a sense of wonder at the world around us, and amazement at our ability to navigate through it. with all of the necessary bumps along the way. The voices of both established and emerging poets include Kim Addonizio, Stephen Dunn, Beth Ann Fennelly, Jennifer Grotz, Kimiko Hahn, Mark Halliday, Edward Hirsch, Meg Kearney. A Van Jordan, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, Thomas Lux, Michael Ryan, and Gerald Stern, among many others. This is a diverse grouping and a generous and lively sampling work is showcased on the pages of this anthology.

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Four Way Books
Publication date: 11/4/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 9.50" wide x 6.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



Never Before






When I Was Conceived



First Haircut



Poem on the First Day of School



Waterfall



Bridges



Window of Our Soul



The Ice-Cream Sandwich



Sunday Morning Walk



First



First Kill



Suzanne



First Time Going to School All by Myself



Hail



First Glasses



Frutas



Peaches



Foreplay



Riding Lesson



Winged Snake Found on a Path



The First One



Joining the Circus



Fingers in the Bread



Story of Sound



Horse



Fowler Street



Learning to Swim at Poverty Beach



Treasure



The Picnic



First Love, Sixteen Years Old



The Cry






First Kiss



First Kiss



Fall



Sequence



First Drink



First Time at the Wheel



Ooh My Soul



Orphic Night



The Widening



First Blow-Job



Development



Fifteen



4-H



The Single Urge



The Eclipse



All the Pools in Queens



Trade Show



The First Time I Heard Elvis



My Father's First Fight



The Doe



The Hunt



Into First



Orientation: Wittenberg University






Firsts in No Particular Order



New Year



Thank You for Being You



The Sphere



Chelsea



God and the G-Spot



Poem for a New Girlfriend



Sperm Count



Upon Seeing an Ultrasound Photo of an Unborn Child



Goodnight, Goodbye



Cantata, viii



The Birth Room



Arrival



New York, 1927



Latching On, Falling Off



First Nightmare Waking



Cathedral



First Empathy



August Horizon



Query



At the Crematorium, My Son Asks Why We're All Wearing Black



My Son's Wedding, My Daughter's



First Night in the New House



First Date in Twenty-Five Years



Poem on My Birthday






Evidence of Life



Each Sound



The Middle Age



The Kildan Women



Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man



To the South



La Bajada



First Sight



Bridge View



First Job Viper



First Turtle



Taking Calls in Freeport, NY



Second Story Warehouse



Job



First Time Reading Freud



The First Time I Robbed Tiffany's



First Nights



First Exercise



Good Morning Coffee Makes Vivid of the Vague; Suddenly You Have Hands and Eyes and Legs!



Of Marilyn, and Marijuana



Poem Without a Freight Train or a Pocket Watch



Swinging Low



Blind Date with the Muse



First Poem



When my poem appeared



First Books



First Sunset at Outler's Ranch



Feeding the Worms



After the First Snow



First Lesson: Winter Trees



The First Stone



After



Introducing New Year's Soulutions, From Saint Terri's Inc.



H. Chic



My Mother's Body



Tinnitus



Losing My Hair



Changing



Verse for First



Elevator



Confession



My Corpses



Inquest, By Hand



About the Editor


Biographical Notes


Copyright Pages