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Antillia
About this book
Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention
The title poem of this collection refers to the phantom island of Antillia, included on maps in the fifteenth century but later found not to exist. The ghosts that haunt this collection are phantom islands, moon lakes, lasers used to clean the caryatids at the Acropolis, earlier versions of the self, suicides, a madam from the Old West, petroleum, snapdragons, pets, ice apples, Casper, and a “resident ghost” who makes the domestic realm of “the cradle and the bed” uninhabitable. The ghosts are sons, fathers “asleep in front of the TV,” and a variety of exes—“lost boys” with names like The Texan and Mr. No More Cowboy Hat whom Henrietta Goodman treats with snarky wit but also with grief, guilt, and love.
Although memories pervade this collection, these poems also look forward and outward into a world where social inequality and environmental disaster meet the possibility of metamorphosis.
The title poem of this collection refers to the phantom island of Antillia, included on maps in the fifteenth century but later found not to exist. The ghosts that haunt this collection are phantom islands, moon lakes, lasers used to clean the caryatids at the Acropolis, earlier versions of the self, suicides, a madam from the Old West, petroleum, snapdragons, pets, ice apples, Casper, and a “resident ghost” who makes the domestic realm of “the cradle and the bed” uninhabitable. The ghosts are sons, fathers “asleep in front of the TV,” and a variety of exes—“lost boys” with names like The Texan and Mr. No More Cowboy Hat whom Henrietta Goodman treats with snarky wit but also with grief, guilt, and love.
Although memories pervade this collection, these poems also look forward and outward into a world where social inequality and environmental disaster meet the possibility of metamorphosis.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- 1
- The Puppy and Kitten Channel
- What Are We Going to Turn Into?
- Gretel Returns
- Ice Apples
- Asked to Imagine the Death of My Son
- Self-Portrait, 1921, Alberto Giacometti
- Lake of Delight
- Self-Portrait Playing Tennis
- Self-Portrait with Emergency Landing
- Futures
- The Man behind the Curtain
- Lake of Winter (Berryman)
- Self-Portrait as a Stranger
- Caryatids
- I Want to Be a Door
- Opossum of the Month
- Sea of Desire
- Free Association
- Antillia
- Lake of Death
- Postcolonial Melancholia
- Red-Winged Blackbirds
- 2
- I Don’t Require Durability in a Swan
- 3
- When Frankenstein Chased His Creature across the Ice
- The Men at Snowbowl Teaching Their Daughters to Ski
- The Petroleum Club
- Seahorse
- Organizational Systems
- Self-Portrait in the Blackfoot
- Self-Portrait with Northern Lights
- Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers (Marc Chagall, 1912)
- Lake of Time
- Letter from the Ant Queen
- The Repetitive Bird
- Self-Portrait on Valentine’s Day
- Pointillist Self-Portrait
- Mr. No More Cowboy Hat
- Letter from the Queen of the Crows
- Remember What You Said About Women
- Lake of Hope
- Resident Ghost
- The Texan
- Self-Portrait in Downtown Missoula
- Namaste
- Source Acknowledgments
- About Henrietta Goodman
- Backwaters Prize in Poetry