Want, the Lake
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With all the power of a long-brewing storm, the brilliant poet Jenny Factor finally returns to make public the interior work and spoils of decades in Want, The Lake, her second poetry collection.
This book of fifty-two poems spans twenty years of life-accumulated wisdom, images, and desires-with a dedication to craft that has been honed and clarified by time.
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Jenny Factor is an archaeologist of object and mind, a feminist, a mother, and a dog-lover. An inhabitant of doubled geographies, Jenny helps to organize the monthly Caltech Poetry Lunch while studying 18-century women's poetry networks at Brandeis University. Her first collection, Unraveling at the Name, won the Hayden Carruth Award and was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Factor's writing has appeared in more than a dozen anthologies, including Poetry 180, The Best American Erotic Poems, Prairie Schooner, the Gay & Lesbian Review, and the Paris Review. Her work has been supported by an Astraea Grant in poetry and acknowledged with a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg honorable mention. Jenny lectures Poetry at Caltech and is the former core faculty member in Poetry at the MFA in Creative Writing program at Antioch University. She divides her time between Pasadena, CA and Marblehead, MA.
Content
- Intro
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Wanting
- i left myself
- apogee
- Fruits & Vegetables
- Sinking
- Want the Lake
- In August
- The Modern Lotus Eaters
- we eat to remember
- Shiny Penny
- Elegy for a Younger Self: Walking in the Snow
- What I never understood about my mother's body
- Mother: Verbed and Snared
- I remade myself for several hours
- Elegy for a Younger Self: Road Trip with Lakes
- How I Want to Hold You
- here is the story
- Bear Bare Skin: a snow white rose red story
- 1. The Field Speaks to the Reader
- 2. Rose Tells the Field about Another Field .
- Interlude: Bear Enters the Home of Snow and Rose
- 3. Bear Explains Their Clothing to Rose and Snow
- 4. Snow Defines Love and the Purpose of Silence
- 5. Wizard Speaks, Making Clear His Intentions
- 6. Bear Warns Snow and Rose about the Wizard
- 7. Rose and Snow Tell the Field Their Troubles
- we unmake every gesture
- Diagnosis
- The Last Resort
- On Choosing, and Not Choosing
- Why Flood? Why Shadow? A Confession & a Covenant
- For I have washed your jeans and new embroidered shirt .
- i almost spoke i never spoke
- Ode to New Leisure: Technology
- Scenes Abroad
- Serpent's Tooth
- On Not Aiming for What You Really Want
- Sapphics on Nursing
- Diptych
- The Song of the Sippy Cup
- Contingency, Irony, Ingenue-ity
- my own sound a water
- Mama
- Pep Talk
- A Mother's Headache
- Descent to the Pt. Reyes Lighthouse
- Death Valley Pupfish
- Notes from the Other Side
- Settling In
- twice i grew that tiny heart
- Amma's Love Lesson
- Ode to Old Leisure: Of Boredom
- The Phone Call
- 165 Cambridge Park Drive, Day 2
- there is no end to it
- Recitativo
- She Said to Me
- Letter in ( . ), Threes, Fives, and Sixes
- Pen Pals
- Romantic Friendship
- Spider
- Nest (recipe)
- Reciprocal?
- a confession & a covenant
- Passing Through
- People Ask What I Do
- Joanna at 2 o'clock
- Malibu Noël
- Against Publishing
- Notes
- Back Cover
