Book of Goodbyes

Name: Book of Goodbyes
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ISBN: 9781938160141

ISBN-10: 1938160142

ISBN-13: 9781938160141

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Authors: Jillian Weise

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Winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award.The Los Angeles Times described Jillian Weise's debut poetry collection as "a fearless dissection of the taboo and the hidden." In this second collection she forwards her bold, sexy poetics by chronicling an affair with a man she names "Big Logos." These poems throw into question sex, the law, identity, sentiment, and power, shifting between lyric and narrative, hyper-realism and magical realism, fact and fiction.I've Been Waiting All NightI reckon you were asleep with your girlbefore the phone rang. Make something up.I've been waiting all night to tell youabout the couple in post-War France,the woman fresh in her graveand the man who didn't like…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
Publication date: 9/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 88
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English






Up Late and Likewise


The Ugly Law


Decent Recipe for Tilapia


I've Been Waiting All Night


Cafï¿½ Loop


How to Treat Flowers


Affairs


Poem for His Girl


Intermission


Tiny and Courageous Finches


Go On High Ship


Marcel Addresses Kate (As He "Would If He Could)





Why I No Longer Skype


Portrait of Big Logos


Once I thought I was going to the in the desert without knowing who I was


Semi Semi Dash


Poem for His Ex


Goodbyes


For Big Logos, in Hopes He Will Write Poems Again


Be Not Far From Me


Curtain Call


Elegy for Zahra Baker


Notes


Acknowledgments


About the Author


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