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
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Suggested Donation
- Mistake
- Far-fetched vs. Far-flung
- The Running of Several Simulations at Once May Lead to Murky Data
- What Big Eyes You Have
- Paper Crown
- Our Physical Relationship
- An Old Game
- Perfect Song
- Description of Work in Progress
- In Haste
- Beset by a Disk of Radiating Feathers
- My Love You Died in My Dream Last Night
- Swallow It Whole
- The Ark
- The Waking Life
- My Visual Aid Is a Timeline
- To the Brim
- Shelter in Place
- How Much for the Swan Boat
- The Tooth
- I Know What I’m Talking About
- Our Town
- The Board Meeting
- My Education
- Docent
- On a Walk
- All the Time in the World
- Some Ideas on the Novel
- On the Prevention of Further Mistakes
- Lucite Office Furniture
- In Order of Appearance
- Syllogisms
- Is This Happy Like Is There a Happy Javelin Run Through Me
- Advent
- A Clearing
- Eff
- My Idea
- Science Fair
- Little to No
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
