Falling Backwards Into Mirrors
eBook - ePub

Falling Backwards Into Mirrors

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eBook - ePub

Falling Backwards Into Mirrors

About this book

Falling Backwards Into Mirrors is a book that merges poetry and memoir. At the same time, it is a collection grounded in the body, naked and spare, wounded and wonderful. Through vivid, sensual images that evoke feeling, the speaker embraces the naked architecture of her own flesh and bones. In moments of give and take, this healing journey echoes the kind of deep explorations once undertaken by Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath. After a fall from a boat, water, distortions of light, and the blur of close reflection inspire the speaker to question the consistency her own surface. She is hamstrung, literally and figuratively. She can't stand unsupported. She can't walk. She can't sit. While supine for long stretches of time, her mirror becomes a vehicle for metaphor, for seeing, for reflecting, and refracting. Falling Backwards into Mirrors begins with a sudden trauma and moves forward as the surface of the speaker's skin becomes like vellum, and landscape and love, family and community are grafted to hope.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Waiting in the shadows, we are dappled with hope.
  7. Falling Backwards Into Mirrors
  8. You Are Silver And Exact
  9. Ode On A Leg—or—Dear Surgeon General (you mean minister of health and wellness—either, no any one, even Keats will do)
  10. Hallucination
  11. August Moon
  12. A Woman Bends Over Me
  13. Bad Dream
  14. A Man Bends Over Me
  15. Naked Architecture
  16. The Truth About Stella: just as it is unmisted by love or dislike
  17. Intercourse
  18. Most Of The Time You Meditate On The Opposite Wall
  19. You See Her Back And Reflect It Faithfully
  20. Acousto-Electric Orthopaedics
  21. Movement Poetics
  22. Hedging
  23. Meanwhile Back At The Lake
  24. Just Out Of Reach
  25. Thomas Horne
  26. And Then You Go Home
  27. August Twenty-Five
  28. Echoes Of Diving Into The Wreck
  29. You Have Looked At It So Long
  30. In The Mauve Desert
  31. Upon Finally Jumping In
  32. An Agitation Of Hands
  33. Prairie: A Reverse Haiku
  34. Bow Valley Lift
  35. Ashbury Rant
  36. Morning Still
  37. From Your Daughter’s Desk On A Fourth Floor On Fourth
  38. Home And Wishing For Hawk
  39. B. D. H.
  40. Some Quaint Perched Aerie On The Cliffs Of Time
  41. Notes
  42. Acknowledgements