Holy Moly Carry Me
Description
Winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Poetry
Erika Meitner's fifth collection of poetry plumbs human resilience and grit in the face of disaster, loss, and uncertainty. These narrative poems take readers into the heart of southern Appalachia-its highways and strip malls and gun culture, its fragility and danger-as the speaker wrestles with what it means to be the only Jewish family in an Evangelical neighborhood and the anxieties of raising one white son and one black son amidst racial tensions and school lockdown drills. With a firm hand on the pulse of the uncertainty at the heart of 21st century America and a refusal to settle for easy answers, Meitner's poems embrace life in an increasingly fractured society and never stop asking what it means to love our neighbor as ourselves.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- HolyMolyLand
- Austerity
- Medium / Message
- Continuation
- Hat Trick
- Double Sonnet Ending in New Testament
- On the Road
- Diaspora
- Image from the Archives of the Institute for Esoteric Research
- Dollar General
- Elegy for the Body Before It's Released from Grief and into Light
- Our Holiday Letter
- And Still We Gather with Infinite Momentum
- De Soto Park
- What Follows Is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence
- HolyMolyLand
- Peregrinus
- No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen
- Factography: Hometown
- The Clock of the Long Now
- Loss Prevention Starts with You
- But My Heart Is Wild and My Bones Are Steel
- Post-Game-Day Blessing
- Vicissitudes
- Your Rivers, Your Margins, Your Diminutive Villages
- Poem with Warehouse Fire & Disaster Recovery Team
- Too Strong
- Insane Flying Machines
- Threat Assessment
- Jackhammering Limestone
- I'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Colophon
