In Praise of Falling
Published on 31. July 2009
89 pages
978-0-8229-7828-2 (ISBN)
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The poems in this collection are the proverbial spring bulbs abandoned in the basement, growing toward a slim crack of sunlight. They are both aware of the limitations of social structures and forcefully committed to breaking out of those traps, urging toward a better way of living. The characters in these poems resist the twenty-first century's prescription for a life of emotional-spiritual bankruptcy, reaching toward an ever-elusive glimmer on the horizon.
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Cheryl Dumesnil
In Praise of Falling
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07/2009
University of Pittsburgh Press
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Cheryl Dumesnil is editor of Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall and coeditor of Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos. Her poems have appeared in Calyx, Indiana Review, Many Mountains Moving, and Nimrod International Journal, among other publications. Cheryl teaches writing workshops in the San Francisco Bay area.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- I. Theories
- It's not Armageddon
- Atlantis
- Don't Miss It
- Bernal Heights
- "A Soldier's Home, Hughes, Arkansas, 1970"
- Theories
- Prayer for Sleep
- American Robin
- Teaching Luca Mr. Potato Head
- On the first day of class
- Moon, Jacket, Yellow, Tree, Violin
- II. Changing Room
- The Storyteller's Daughter
- Killing
- The Amnesiac, Seventh Grade
- Chosen
- Stars
- The Hill
- Clarissa's Great Aunt
- Changing Room
- Triangle Tattoo
- Hard Labor
- III. Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep
- Foundling
- Nightmare Predicting Change
- Recurring
- Junk Shop Magic
- True
- Afterbirth
- Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep
- Other Nights
- Revisited
- Narrative
- IV. Say Yes
- In Praise of Falling
- Meteorology
- The Swimmer
- Wetlands
- Don't Ask Me
- When
- If
- Q to the 6 Train
- Creature
- Dark Magic
- Getting It Right This Time
- Say Yes
- Acknowledgments
