Details

Subject(s)

• American poetry—21st century [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• poetry [Browse]

Series

Akron series in poetry [More in this series]

Summary note

The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning with absence - the death of the author's mother, the absence of the beloved, the absence of an accountable god, cicadas, the dead stars arriving, the dead moon aglow in the night sky.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-88).

Contents

• [I keep throwing words at the problem because words]; Left Panel; [December]; [God speaks]; [Summa mathematica]; [I would drive to your grave]; [Imagine]; [There are things you love]; [Pray]; [Take eat]; [The orphan child eats blueberries in Vermont]; [To say]; [Practice]; [Ötzi]; [Coda]; [Wilt thou play with him as with a bird]; Right Panel; [When trees are dead they are]; [Carnation lily lily rose]; [Sisyphus in love]; [Eve]; [Stutter]; [Sirens]; [Parable]; [Charm for a spring storm]; [Landscape with falling birds]; [That]; [Venice]; [The horses]; [Touch me now]
• [Was it ice]; [Once]; [Parable]; [Epiphany]; Center Panel; [Actias luna]; [Parable]; [Over]; [This I know]; [What I mean]; [Because in all your life you've lived]; [Snowfields]; [Let the blue earth spin]; [Things the realtor will not tell the new owner]; [Salt]; [Dear god I ask]; [Bezoar]; [Wrong]; [Invocation]; [Nest]; Notes; Acknowledgments

ISBN

• 9781629220635 ((paper))
• 1629220639 ((paper))
• 9781629220628 ((cloth))
• 1629220620 ((cloth))

LCCN

2016026149

OCLC

953823581

Other standard number

• 99976193357

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