How to Fall
Published on 15. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-84471-433-9 (ISBN)
Description
How to Fall, from Cape Cod to Cornwall, is the art of defying the gravity of loss. Chance encounters hint at the darker side of relationships. The present carries with it the weight of the unspoken past. And throughout these urgent narratives there is a voice you can trust, and a world wide and generous enough for starting again. Here are sensuous poems that celebrate the transience of the moment.
"Karen Annesen's How to Fall is going to be a real event. Annesen is one of those poets whose cumulative effect is greater than that of any individual poem. There's a stillness and intensity about her language that reminds me of Louise Gluck, which from a rabid Gluck fangirl is high praise, and I love the way some of her poems clearly have an immense back-story which is never spelt out but adds ominous heft and depth to what we do see." - Sheenagh Pugh
"Karen Annesen's How to Fall is going to be a real event. Annesen is one of those poets whose cumulative effect is greater than that of any individual poem. There's a stillness and intensity about her language that reminds me of Louise Gluck, which from a rabid Gluck fangirl is high praise, and I love the way some of her poems clearly have an immense back-story which is never spelt out but adds ominous heft and depth to what we do see." - Sheenagh Pugh
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84471-433-9 (9781844714339)
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Person
Karen Annesen grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Selections of her work have appeared in The Like of It (Baring & Rogerson, 2005) and Oxford Poets 2004: An Anthology (Carcanet). She has degrees in Psychology, Housing and Writing, and has taught Creative Writing and worked with homeless women and people with learning disabilities in London and Oxfordshire, where she now lives.
Content
How to Fall
10.45 to Stockholm
Wishing
Fishmonger's Cafe
Bridesmaid
The Dunes
Playground
Carl's Bar and Grill
Getting On
Via London
Late Night Window
A Boy Can Dream of Honey Only If He's Tasted It
Inside This Room
Every Dark Place
A Few Words
Cornmarket Street, Oxford
Fair Promises
Unsteady
At the Inn-Between
Dwyfor
Letter from Lasswade
Altered
Afternoon, Rhodes
Telling the Story
Letter to Nate
Domestic Fire
Stirring
As if She Thought
Imagining Falmouth
She Eats Cherries Slowly
Dinas Terrace
Eating a Mango with My Mother
Core
Catherine Wheel
River Mouth
More Invisible Still
Into the Woods
Waverly Station
Coniston Water
Building the House
Her Blue Room
Bridge
Don't be Mad
An Error of Timing
Newport Parrog
Widow
In the Bedroom
Frozen
Bakerloo Line
Paddington Station
Christ Church Meadow
Gift
First
St Martin's Island
Here, Now
Visit
San Xavier Mission
Filling Mia
Blakeney, Norfolk
Driving Cornwall
Time to Go Now
10.45 to Stockholm
Wishing
Fishmonger's Cafe
Bridesmaid
The Dunes
Playground
Carl's Bar and Grill
Getting On
Via London
Late Night Window
A Boy Can Dream of Honey Only If He's Tasted It
Inside This Room
Every Dark Place
A Few Words
Cornmarket Street, Oxford
Fair Promises
Unsteady
At the Inn-Between
Dwyfor
Letter from Lasswade
Altered
Afternoon, Rhodes
Telling the Story
Letter to Nate
Domestic Fire
Stirring
As if She Thought
Imagining Falmouth
She Eats Cherries Slowly
Dinas Terrace
Eating a Mango with My Mother
Core
Catherine Wheel
River Mouth
More Invisible Still
Into the Woods
Waverly Station
Coniston Water
Building the House
Her Blue Room
Bridge
Don't be Mad
An Error of Timing
Newport Parrog
Widow
In the Bedroom
Frozen
Bakerloo Line
Paddington Station
Christ Church Meadow
Gift
First
St Martin's Island
Here, Now
Visit
San Xavier Mission
Filling Mia
Blakeney, Norfolk
Driving Cornwall
Time to Go Now