The Anchorage

by Wunderlich, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781558492004
• ISBN10: 1558492003
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

In this debut collection, Mark Wunderlich creates a central metaphor of the body as anchor for the soul - but it is a body in peril, one set in motion through the landscape of desire. In poems located in New York's summer streets, in the barren snowfields of Wisconsin, and along stretches of Cape Cod's open shoreline, the lover speaks to the beloved in the form of lyrical missives, arguments, and intimate monologues. The poems converse with each other; images repeat and echo in an effect that is strange and beautiful. Uniting the collection is an original and consistent voice - one that has found a hard won stance against the haphazard and negotiates with what is needful and sufficient.

Author Biography

Mark Wunderlich is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.

Table of Contents

Take Good Care of Yourself	p. 3
Given In Person Only	p. 5
The Trick	p. 7
Through an Opening Door	p. 9
Continent's Edge	p. 11
Cease, the Heart is With Me	p. 13
The Anchorage	p. 15
From a Vacant House	p. 17
Peonies	p. 21
To Sleep in a New City	p. 22
The Bruise of This	p. 23
On Opening	p. 24
How I Was Told and Not Told	p. 25
Thirst	p. 26
Winter of Heaven, Winter of Ash	p. 27
The Mare	p. 30
Pale Notion	p. 31
In the Winter of This Climate	p. 32
One Explanation of Beauty	p. 33
Aubade	p. 34
Unmade Bed	p. 37
Chapel of the Miraculous Medal	p. 38
Fourteen Things We're Allowed to Bring to the Underworld	p. 39
Predictions about a Black Car	p. 40
No Place Like Home	p. 41
Letter Written to a Verse by Karen Carpenter	p. 42
All That, Stammering	p. 43
Suture	p. 47
Hunt	p. 48
The Shot	p. 49
This Heat, These Human Forms	p. 55
Difficult Body	p. 57
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