Diamonds
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Diamonds presents a woman in midlife on the edge. In hilarious and heartbreaking poems, Camille Guthrie writes about the trials and surprises of divorce, parenting, country life-and the difficulties and delights of being alone, looking at art, and falling in love.
Witty resilience abounds in these irreverent poems about grief and desire-in which the poet meditates upon gender roles, history, pop culture, and academia. Guthrie subverts and teases traditional forms in an elegy about Sylvia Plath's prom dress, a dating profile for Hieronymus Bosch, a sestina about beauty and power-with radical dramatic monologues in the voices of Madame du Barry, a Pict Woman, and more. Unlike Virgil, who refuses to guide this poet through her journey at midlife, Guthrie leads readers by the hand into a provoking, affecting journey of a break-up and a reconciliation with love.
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Section I
- Virgil, Hey
- Diamonds
- During the Middle Ages
- Magical Object
- Wise Woman
- Girl Twirling
- Family Collection
- Section II
- My Net Worth
- I Am Giving Up Poetry
- My Boyfriend, John Keats
- Serious Moonlight
- Victim of Love
- Love, Madame du Barry
- A Man of Legend
- Works & Days
- Section III
- Be More Like Bjork
- A Young Daughter of the Picts
- Upon Reading Milton
- The Ideal Form
- Dating Profile
- Come Back!
- To Bring You News
- Beautiful Poetry
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Colophon
