Animals of Habit
Published on 20. July 2013
34 pages
978-1-61277-778-8 (ISBN)
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"In 'Love Poem to the Phrase Let's Get Coffee,' Catherine Pierce writes 'I adore your elegant manner, one hand on the car door, the other on the ass.' She writes with her own tricky elegance, one that acknowledges yet adores language's self-serving grace. Pierce deftly blends repetition with sophisticated syntax, and a sinister wit glows inside the emotional wisdom of her vision. Animals of Habit is an exhilarating book."-Andrew Hudgins "If I didn't know the poet personally, I'd think the name Catherine Pierce was a pseudonym, for these poems are not merely edgy, they are razor-sharp-they disembowel. What an extraordinary command of structure, persona, and humor this poet has! In one fell swoop, she has re-invented the 'love' poem and eschewed both pretentiousness and the anti-intellectual by being always smart and entertaining."-Kathy Fagan
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Animals of Habit
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07/2013
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Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I
- Love Poem to Sinister Moments
- Love Poem to the Word Lonesome
- Love Poem to a Blank Space
- Love Poem to Doo-Wop
- Love Poem to the Phrase Let's get coffee
- Love Poem to America
- Love Poem to Fear
- II
- While You Sleep, I Watch Myself Die
- Evolution
- Nor Hell a Fury
- Account
- Just Before the Divorce, We Go Camping
- Italy by Pieces
- Invective Against My Mother's Mortality
- Several Days Before the End of the World
- Poem for Bob Dylan's Women
- Clichéd
- Instinct
- Die Jungfrau
- Adolescence
- Photograph Taken Inside the Boston Public Library Stairwell, Mid-December, 2 P.M.
