Paper Crown
eBook - ePub

Paper Crown

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Paper Crown

About this book

Since Heather Christle published her last poetry collection a decade ago, her nonfiction works The Crying Book and In the Rhododendrons have found her readers around the world. Paper Crown marks Christle's exuberant return to her home genre, in which she combines the imagination of her earliest poetry with the personal elements of her more recent prose. These poems conjure moments when the world's events (a child's words, early twentieth-century predictions of drone warfare, dinner with friends) align themselves with the odd logic of dreams and serendipity. With tenderness and verve, honesty and curiosity, Paper Crown invites readers to look up from its pages and recognize that the day going on around them could very well be its own poem.

[sample poem]
Mistake

For years I have seen
dead animals on the highway

and grieved for them
only to realize they are

not dead animals
they are t shirts

or bits of blown tire
and I have found

myself with this
excess of grief

I have made with
no object to let

it spill over and
I have not known

where to put it or
keep it and then today

I thought I know
I can give it to you

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Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Suggested Donation
  8. Mistake
  9. Far-fetched vs. Far-flung
  10. The Running of Several Simulations at Once May Lead to Murky Data
  11. What Big Eyes You Have
  12. Paper Crown
  13. Our Physical Relationship
  14. An Old Game
  15. Perfect Song
  16. Description of Work in Progress
  17. In Haste
  18. Beset by a Disk of Radiating Feathers
  19. My Love You Died in My Dream Last Night
  20. Swallow It Whole
  21. The Ark
  22. The Waking Life
  23. My Visual Aid Is a Timeline
  24. To the Brim
  25. Shelter in Place
  26. How Much for the Swan Boat
  27. The Tooth
  28. I Know What I’m Talking About
  29. Our Town
  30. The Board Meeting
  31. My Education
  32. Docent
  33. On a Walk
  34. All the Time in the World
  35. Some Ideas on the Novel
  36. On the Prevention of Further Mistakes
  37. Lucite Office Furniture
  38. In Order of Appearance
  39. Syllogisms
  40. Is This Happy Like Is There a Happy Javelin Run Through Me
  41. Advent
  42. A Clearing
  43. Eff
  44. My Idea
  45. Science Fair
  46. Little to No
  47. Acknowledgments
  48. Notes