Tell Me
1st Edition
Published on 20. December 2013
96 pages
978-1-938160-41-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this new collection by the author of the award-winning The Philosopher's Club, Kim Addonizio takes the grist of the world and transforms it into poems of transcendent beauty. The dual themes of love and loss are pervasive in Addonizio's poems, made poignant by her keen eye and wise observations.
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Kim Addonizio is the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. She is co-author with Dorianne Laux of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Addonizio's first collection, The Philosopher's Club, received the 1994 Great Lakes New Writers' Award and a Silver Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California. She holds a master's degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University and is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Pushcart Prize. She lives in San Francisco.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. The Singing
- The Numbers
- The Singing
- Glass
- Quantum
- Theodicy
- Target
- Salmon
- A Childhood
- The Moment
- Garbage
- Things That Don't Happen
- Ha
- Night of the Living, Night of the Dead
- Siamese
- Virgin Spring
- Therapy
- New Year's Day
- Generations
- 2. Blue Door
- Near Heron Lake
- Crafts Fair, Picuris Pueblo
- Collapsing Poem
- The Divorcee and Gin
- At Moss Beach
- Ranchos de Taos, August
- Blue Door
- 3. Last Call
- Intimacy
- The Embers
- Last Call
- Nothing
- Last Gifts
- The Revered Poet Instructs her Students on the Importance of Revision
- Phantom Anniversary
- For Sleep
- The Promise
- The Body in Extremis
- Rain
- Beginning with His Body and Ending in a Small Town
- Tell Me
- Mermaid Song
- Spill
- The Lovers
- Affair
- 4. Good Girl
- Onset
- What Do Women Want?
- Good GIrl
- Physics
- Aliens
- Like That
- Prayer
- Fine
- The Witness
- Leaving Song
- One-Night Stands
- Getting Older
- For Desire
- Flood
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Colophon
