How I Got Lost So Close to Home

by Dryansky, Amy

• ISBN13: 9781882295227
• ISBN10: 1882295226
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Alice James Books

Summary

Poetry. Every night the dog down the road/ asks the same question in an afflicted howling/ I don't understand. Amy Dryansky's poems open the moment of experience for fresh possibilities of understanding. By this, I mean the impact of her language, her vision, and her quest bring us to the point of moving beyond the poems. We are given more in this book than in most collections because the poet has not held anything back. We find ourselves on the other side of the book -- that place any poet and her reader wishes to be -- Ray Gonzalez.

Table of Contents

Today Everything Hurts	p. 13
Merit Badge	p. 14
Too Small to Keep	p. 15
Creative	p. 17
The Intersection of Yes	p. 19
What the Tin Man Didn't Know	p. 21
How I Got Lost So Close to Home	p. 23
A Short Message	p. 24
Out of Here	p. 25
The Lull Between Spokes	p. 27
Amber	p. 30
Solitary Vireo	p. 31
For Your Excellent Service	p. 34
Northern Garden	p. 35
Few Minutes	p. 36
Black Crumbs	p. 37
The Size of a Bed Sheet	p. 41
Reticular	p. 42
Undone	p. 43
Rash Refrain	p. 45
Black Pouches	p. 46
Aboard	p. 49
Dog on Hind Legs	p. 51
Interval	p. 52
Bedtime	p. 53
Beauty Locked Up	p. 54
Beneath the Canopy of Trees	p. 56
Beauty in Spite of, Not Because	p. 58
Unsought Prize	p. 61
The Space on the Floor Where the Dog Lay	p. 63
The Bird I'm Trying to Hold	p. 64
How It Flew from Her	p. 65
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