I Want to Tell You
eBook - ePub

I Want to Tell You

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eBook - ePub

I Want to Tell You

About this book

In Jesse Lee Kercheval's sixth collection, I Want to Tell You, her searching, incantatory poems speak directly and forcefully to the reader in a voice that is by turns angry, elegiac, wry, or witty but always sharply alive. Crossing through the bewildering territory of grief, Kercheval argues with god and the universe about the deaths of people she loves. She also writes movingly about the complications of family life and love, the messy puzzle of life itself.

SAY THE WORD, BLISS


when the gaudy sun routs
the curtains

& velvet
is
drawn back from window after window
to let the morning in

& night has yet to be imagined

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. I Want To Tell You
  6. God has no name.
  7. I’ll Call This Death Chartreuse, Her Favorite Color
  8. The Half-Life of Grief
  9. On Being Still Alive
  10. Blessing
  11. White Notes in White Envelopes
  12. Ice
  13. A Dream Set in Wheat
  14. we traveled far and
  15. Poem to Forget
  16. Say the word bliss
  17. Down MacDougal Street
  18. Forgive me
  19. Final Report on the Lost Footage of the War
  20. How the Parents Left Us
  21. A House Is Never Empty
  22. On Being Silent
  23. A poem in which my mother speaks
  24. Dormition
  25. Black Night
  26. [A Twinkling Outermost and Remote]
  27. Archangel
  28. Incandescent
  29. [Today, alone]
  30. [The ice does not melt]
  31. In this city
  32. Speculation, Made to Last
  33. Memorial Day
  34. [When you think about it]
  35. House of Sleep
  36. Train
  37. Genetic
  38. One City Built Upon Another
  39. [Here right here]
  40. Sleep
  41. I am telling you
  42. Acknowledgments