Table of Contents

Of Liberation

Island Pill

This One Hydra

Santa Monica

My Life in Politics

That Must be a Duck

Mope

Someplace in Your Mouth

Lenten Telethon

Ladies Love Adjuncts

For the Republic

Boht Rapid and Not Rapid

The Wake

Parakeet

It’s Hard to Be a Saint

The Problem

Night Class

The Lip

Midwinter Day

July, 2016

A Fold of Sun

The Remainders

Roneo Room Triptych

Summer in the Network of Privileged Carports

Does My Lip Limp?

Some Collide

Natural Skin

Ell Fire

We Found Ourselves in Reading, Then Closed the Book

Innocence Isn't What Appears

Mom's the Boon inside Our Skulls

The Tiny Aches

Cool Ark for Clark

I've Always Got Someone

A Salve is Less than Salvation

As Solid

Life for Mike

dark William

Lopsided Against My Heart

To a Banker

Poem

High Mist Toward Noon

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About the Author

Magdalena Zurawski is the author of the novel The Bruise, which won the Ronald Sukenick Award from FC2 in 2008 and a LAMBDA literary award in 2009, and the collection of poems Companion Animal, which was published by Litmus Press in 2015 and won a Norma Faber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. She attended Brown University where she studied with poets Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop, C.D. Wright, and Peter Gizzi. She has lived in Berlin, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Durham, NC where she ran the Minor American Reading Series. She is currently Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

Reviews

"These poems are hyper-aware of their contradictions, yet completely emotionally vulnerable. They refuse cynicism and pretense, and such a refusal explodes any possibility of intellectual distancing or emotional hiding."--Jennifer Moxley, Poetry Society of America "Because the poems are not charged with having to be about anything . . . their bareness becomes their subject. Their lines, skinny and brusque, feel precarious. . . . 'What is of value in a poem besides its meaning?' Zurawski, writing in solitude, seems to offer this answer: the transaction between the reader and the poet. The book's dedication reads 'for you.'"--Darcie Dennigan, Boston Review "A book of poetry that asserts itself with the various boundaries of open forms."--Woodland Pattern