A Mind Like This
eBook - PDF

A Mind Like This

  1. 112 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Mind Like This

About this book

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Blackwell Ramsey's A Mind Like This is a work of humor and wit, unexpectedly delightful and full of surprises as it reflects on the oddness of everyday life, the natural world, literary history, popular culture, and more. Everything is fair game for Ramsey, who finds poetry in love and sickness and life, of course, but also in knitting and unreliable bladders and the peculiar name of Kalamazoo. Neruda makes an appearance, as do Eric Clapton and Brahms, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and Jimmy Stewart. Whether observing the pickled heads of Peter the Great's offenders, wondering "How to Seduce Henry David Thoreau, " becoming the insecure voice of Kalamazoo, or puzzling over the intricacies of the mind that blocks a dear friend's birthday while preserving the name of Emily Dickinson's dog in perpetuity, Ramsey's collection is wise and funny, allusive and deeply felt.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Source Acknowledgments
  6. A Mind Like This
  7. Pickled Heads: St. Petersburg
  8. Louise Erdrich Learning Ojibiwemowin
  9. Tell Me If You’ve Heard This One
  10. Kalamazoo Decides She Likes Her Name
  11. “And All Trades, Their Gear andTackle and Trim”
  12. Boliche
  13. Peripheral: Emerson, 1847
  14. Knitting Lace
  15. The Duc de Saint-Simon BuysLady Murasaki a Drink
  16. January, Tulips
  17. Gaudeamus, Full Band Version
  18. A Mind Like This
  19. The Comfort of Pickup Trucks
  20. Why I Hate Storytellers
  21. Aftereffects of Bell’s Palsy
  22. Ode to My Bladder
  23. Outside Interests
  24. Learning Curves
  25. Mount St. Helen’s, May 18, 1980
  26. Sexing the Alligator
  27. Pattern and Ground