Crawlers

by Anderson, Nathalie F.

• ISBN13: 9780912592596
• ISBN10: 0912592591
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

Poetry. "The poems in Nathalie Anderson's CRAWLERS explore family, in its traditional sense and as a metaphor for the relationships of the world at large, mining dark and complicated truths. Anderson's imagery is densely beautiful, disarmingly rich. Hers is an expansive and generous poetry--desperately moving, meticulously crafted"--Denise Duhamel.

Author Biography

Nathalie Anderson, co-winner of the 2005 Robert McGovern Publication Prize, is also the winner of the 1998 Washington Prize from The Word Works for her first book, Following Fred Astaire. She published a chapbook and her poems have appeared in several journals. A 1993 Pew Fellow, she serves currently as Poet in Residence at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, and is a Professor in the Swarthmore College Department of English Literature, where she directs the Program in Creative Writing.

Table of Contents

Spider bite	p. 3
Crawlers	p. 7
Distraction	p. 10
Fort-Da	p. 11
The dream of the dark	p. 15
The miser	p. 19
Tale	p. 20
Two sorceries	p. 21
Transpicuity	p. 23
Shirt of nettles, house of thorns	p. 25
Floating gardens	p. 28
Formic acid	p. 33
Mrs. Noah	p. 43
Baggage	p. 46
My south	p. 51
Footwork	p. 54
Theseus drops the thread	p. 58
Two little songs about love	p. 59
Sweat	p. 60
Girls at the Hemingford Grey regatta	p. 61
Out	p. 62
Two last things	p. 67
Black hole	p. 70
On purchasing a second case of R. W. Knudsen family pomegranate juice	p. 78
The slaking	p. 80
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