Now : Poems

by Tenenbaum, Molly

• ISBN13: 9780979374500
• ISBN10: 0979374502
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

Poetry. NOW, Molly Tenenbaum's second full-length collection of poetry, conjures the rare - life within a yellow ice cream truck, a bridge tender watching "masts thin out to threads" - and honors the commonplace. These poems deliver their news, their "nows," in language as haunting and buoyant as the melodies that Tenenbaum, and accomplished musician, knows so well. "Intelligent, playful, musical, these poems transform pain, sadness, and all the richness of the world into a made life, a work of art" -Sharon Bryan. Winner of The Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize 2007.

Author Biography

Molly Tenenbaum teaches creative writing at North Seattle Community College.

Table of Contents

My New Life	p. 15
I'll Start It When the Apricot Man Brings His Dry-farmed Fruit	p. 17
I Live in a Yellow Ice Cream Truck	p. 18
My Preferences: A Profile for Prospective Lovers	p. 20
Things I Can't Lift	p. 23
My Education	p. 25
Because I Didn't in This, in My Next I Will Have To	p. 26
From Fire, This Is My First of Seven Lives in Water	p. 27
A Splinter Shows You Are Letting Petty and Trivial Things Upset You; Denotes a Preliminary Sketch or Scheme; Organic, of No Significance	p. 29
Foliage Admonition	p. 30
Translations of the Invocation	p. 33
Solutions to the Checklist Problem	p. 34
My New Life Comes with	p. 36
The House Named Imbue	p. 38
Beach Cabin	p. 39
X	p. 41
Lessons of the Nth Lost Scarf	p. 42
Oval Underwater	p. 43
I'll Find My New Life in Small Things	p. 45
Song of the Bridge Tender	p. 49
What My Father Wanted To Be, He Used To Say	p. 51
I Work at the Wonder Bread Factory	p. 54
Curator of Horology	p. 56
My Librarian	p. 57
We Used To Run Old World Fudge	p. 59
Bottom Line	p. 61
Scissors Signify Separation; Opening; Decisiveness, Firmness; Making Things the Right Shape and Fitting Them Together	p. 63
Aptitude Test	p. 64
In My New Life, I'll Live at Le Pichet	p. 69
My Personal Peace March	p. 71
Year of the Myriad French Bakeries	p. 73
The Day after Thanksgiving	p. 75
CV	p. 79
Poem Almost All Above the Neck	p. 80
To All My New Lives So Far	p. 83
To My New Life	p. 86
Yet Another Sun Is Always at Work	p. 87
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