Easy Does It
poems
Published on 21. March 2021
83 pages
978-1-62922-212-7 (ISBN)
Description
In Easy Does It, Jennifer Moore''s second full-length collection, the speaker brings the reader on an exploration of multiple worlds: the social, the domestic, and the pastoral, considering the difficult questions and problems of the self-of memory, history, grief, and desire. The poems move from buzzing, bewildering environments where "hide and seek becomes Save yourself" and "nothing ever / does it easy" in pursuit of clarity, beauty, and stillness. With colloquial humor and curiosity, the speaker investigates her subjects in tones that range from the wry to the resigned to the powerful. Through linguistic echo and metaphorical transformation, the familiar is made strange and the strange feels like home.
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Grand Opening
- Of What's Difficult
- I Have No Way with Words
- By Definition
- Fool Me Twice
- The Photo Shoot
- Field Report
- Rat Race
- Easy Does It
- Brood Parasite
- The Mirage Is a Hotel for Seeing
- The Fog
- After the Fact
- Domestic Noir
- Gramophone
- Door
- Skeleton Clock
- Thief
- Daylight Saving
- Field Report
- January, Huddled
- Masquerade
- Coloratura
- Bewilderment
- Domestic Noir
- Summer, Later
- That Our Desire Is Increased by Difficulty
- Speak of the Meadow
- Wisteria
- The Calm Eye Passes Over
- Aerial
- Little Epic
- Sea Thistle
- After We Felled the Noble Fir
- What Remains
- Ghost's Ghost
- Sundown, Sky
- Poem with Cloud and Tangerine
- Fantasy Is a Place Where It Rains
- Use Cabbage to Heal the Bruise
- Laurel
- Once You Leave the Forest
- If Night Is a House
- Recipe for Rain
- Diorama
- She Seemed to Arrive Slowly
- House of Rain
- Field Report
- Fog Forest
- I Hope the Owl Remembers Me
- Cradle
- Row
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
