In Praise of Falling
The poems in this collection are the proverbial spring bulbs abandoned in the basement, growing toward a slim crack of sunlight. They are both aware of the limitations of social structures and forcefully committed to breaking out of those traps, urging toward a better way of living. The characters in these poems resist the twenty-first century's prescription for a life of emotional-spiritual bankruptcy, reaching toward an ever-elusive glimmer on the horizon.
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In Praise of Falling
The poems in this collection are the proverbial spring bulbs abandoned in the basement, growing toward a slim crack of sunlight. They are both aware of the limitations of social structures and forcefully committed to breaking out of those traps, urging toward a better way of living. The characters in these poems resist the twenty-first century's prescription for a life of emotional-spiritual bankruptcy, reaching toward an ever-elusive glimmer on the horizon.
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In Praise of Falling

In Praise of Falling

by Cheryl Dumesnil
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In Praise of Falling

by Cheryl Dumesnil

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The poems in this collection are the proverbial spring bulbs abandoned in the basement, growing toward a slim crack of sunlight. They are both aware of the limitations of social structures and forcefully committed to breaking out of those traps, urging toward a better way of living. The characters in these poems resist the twenty-first century's prescription for a life of emotional-spiritual bankruptcy, reaching toward an ever-elusive glimmer on the horizon.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822978282
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 07/31/2009
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 88
File size: 596 KB

About the Author

Cheryl Dumesnil is editor of Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall and coeditor of Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos. Her poems have appeared in Calyx, Indiana Review, Many Mountains Moving, and Nimrod International Journal, among other publications. Cheryl teaches writing workshops in the San Francisco Bay area.

Table of Contents

Contents I. Theories It’s not Armageddon Atlantis Don’t Miss It Bernal Heights “A Soldier’s Home, Hughes, Arkansas, 1970” Theories Prayer for Sleep American Robin Teaching Luca Mr. Potato Head On the first day of class Moon, Jacket, Yellow, Tree, Violin II. Changing Room The Storyteller’s Daughter Killing The Amnesiac, Seventh Grade Chosen Stars The Hill Clarissa’s Great Aunt Changing Room Triangle Tattoo Hard Labor III. Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep Foundling Nightmare Predicting Change Recurring Junk Shop Magic True Afterbirth Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep Other Nights Revisited Narrative IV. Say Yes In Praise of Falling Meteorology The Swimmer Wetlands Don’t Ask Me When If Q to the 6 Train Creature Dark Magic Getting It Right This Time Say Yes Acknowledgments
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