Facing the Facts

by Blauner, Laurie

• ISBN13: 9780914061892
• ISBN10: 0914061895
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Orchises Pr

Table of Contents

Resting in the Small Room of the Heart
Resting in the Small Room of the Heart	11	(1)
The Domestic Life of Fish	12	(1)
Mind Over Matter	13	(1)
Domestic Scenes in the Sky	14	(1)
Self-Portrait with the Distraction of Lightning	15	(1)
Losing Weight	16	(1)
How Scenery Affects the Habits of Birds	17	(1)
The Ordinary Influence of Angels	18	(1)
Growing Ordinary	19	(1)
Ghosts	20	(1)
To Believe in the Possibility of Happiness	21	(1)
Beauty to the Beast	22	(1)
The Body You Never Asked For	23	(1)
When Your Heart Goes	24	(1)
Misunderstanding the Body	25	(1)
The Secret Life of Sex	26	(1)
Two Views of a Beautiful Woman in the Same Mirror	27	(2)
Love in the Middle Ages	29	(1)
One Misshapen Afternoon	30	(1)
The Person You've Never Kissed	31	(1)
When You Vacation Somewhere You've Never Been Before	32	(1)
A Wife's Angle of Detail	33	(1)
Through Thick or Thin	34	(2)
Certain Configurations of Plums	36	(1)
The Convenience of Air	37	(1)
Does the Boat Shape the Water	38	(1)
Certain Small Acts of the Day	39	(2)
The Furniture of Thought	41	(1)
Where the Stars Disintegrate	42	(1)
The Day is an Accident Waiting to Happen	43	(1)
Tourist's Elegy for the Moon	44	(1)
The True Confessions of Your Shadow	45	(1)
When Air Becomes Familiar with the Dark	46	(1)
The All-Night World	47	(1)
The Dead's Confessions to Clouds	48	(1)
Matisse, in the Company of Strangers	49	(1)
The Impressionist Wears High Heels	50	(1)
When the Vagrancy of Tulips	51	(1)
An Apology to the Senses	52	(3)
The Five Senses
Facing the Facts	55	(1)
Remembering the Consequences of Sound	56	(1)
The Still Life	57	(1)
Notes from the Lost and Found	58	(2)
Poem on Poem	60	(5)
Frankenstein
An Evening Prayer, the Bride	65	(1)
Sooner or Later, Doctor Victor F.	66	(1)
Gestures of the Flesh, Doctor F.'s Assistant	67	(1)
The Web, A Villager	68	(1)
Beasts of the Field, A Dog	69	(1)
The Legend of the Body, Frankenstein	70	(1)
Carrying the Suitcase of Her Body	71	(1)
The Trouble with Shadows, the Scientist	72	(1)
The Language of Water	73	(1)
The Invention of Silence, Elizabeth	74	(1)
Frankenstein	75	(2)
Elegy for the Misbegotten	77	(1)
Letter from Captain Walton to His Sister, Margaret	78