I Left My Wings on a Chair
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I Left My Wings on a Chair

  1. 36 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

I Left My Wings on a Chair

About this book

"When the wire man in love with the boiled wool woman imagines himself making love with her underthe emerald tree and then making her a mouth, is he desiring to make for her a mouth, or to make of her a mouth? Such questions charge Karen Schubert's off-kilter worlds with a force less like gravity than like Brownian movement: the poems in I Left My Wings on a Chair don't orbit, they careen." —H. L. Hix

"Karen Schubert's latest collection, I Left My Wings on a Chair, reminds me why I love prose poetry. These are beautiful prose poems; each one is a gem; each one is sublime, witty, and surprising. It's as if she has taken the world that we see and experience every day and given it back again, refreshed, alive, and shimmering. Reading her poems reminds me of reading William Stafford and Naomi Shihab Nye, poets who let you see the mystical and the absurd in the everyday, who make you feel a little better about being alive." —Nin Andrews

"Karen Schubert's I Left My Wings on a Chair takes flight through a series of prose poems that stay afloat with sardonic wit and social satire. Schubert takes on everything from Etsy to Wittgenstein to the many Karen Schuberts in compelling, contemplative, and beautifully wrought vignettes. Russel Edson called the prose poem 'a cast-iron airplane that can actually fly, ' and these prose poems soar!" —Denise Duhamel

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. He Calls Her Etsy
  7. The Viking and the Field Mouse
  8. Career Wish Camp
  9. The Day She Almost Didn’t Die
  10. Jesus’s Pastries
  11. Death Wish
  12. Dangers of Miso Soup
  13. Wittgenstein
  14. The Man Who Hates His Wife
  15. At the Event Museum
  16. Food for the Soul Grocery
  17. The Compost Reader
  18. The Clothes Whisperer
  19. Ted Ruminates over Morning Coffee
  20. Still Life with Ants
  21. Duality
  22. At the Nasher Sculpture Garden
  23. Obsolete Career Camp
  24. All of Me
  25. Lost Child
  26. Autobiography
  27. Wings