Making the New Lamb Take : Poems

by Fried, Gabriel

• ISBN13: 9781932511499
• ISBN10: 1932511490
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Winner of the 2006 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, judged by Michael Ryan.

Table of Contents

Traveling fair	p. 3
Hearing child from a deaf household	p. 5
The mute of hounds	p. 7
Demigods	p. 8
The unnamed season	p. 10
The new garden	p. 11
Cloudburst	p. 12
Dollhouse	p. 13
Making the new lamb take	p. 14
Nursery	p. 17
Mid-fall	p. 18
The places we knew not to go as children	p. 20
The hole	p. 21
To Zita, patron saint of lost keys	p. 23
Guard dog	p. 25
Demeter, after	p. 26
White dwarf star	p. 27
Processional	p. 28
The insomniacs' afterlife	p. 30
In search of Ba & Ka	p. 31
Family gathering	p. 33
Burial	p. 35
The scarecrow fair	p. 37
The scarecrow makers	p. 39
Alone enough	p. 43
Disinterment	p. 44
Abel, after	p. 45
Noah's dove	p. 48
Cain	p. 51
Running from the gods	p. 53
Dora's third dream	p. 55
Eurydice	p. 56
Orpheus, after	p. 60
Diurnal	p. 61
The robin	p. 62
The retrieval	p. 64
The thaw	p. 66
In utero	p. 67
The circumcision	p. 69
Last day of the pantheon	p. 70
First day of a new myth	p. 72
Pandora's box	p. 74
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