James Shea's collection deepens his exploration of the elegiac imagination, sending estranged speakers into new fields of quiet crisis. Orbiting a vast absence, Last Day of My Face reveals a kaleidoscopic perspective on impermanence: "Tomorrow / is a partial and promised gift."
Rich with reversals, short poems are wedged against skittery contemplations, and an easeful tone coexists with a vein of darkness. Akin to lucid dreaming, this startling volume builds toward a final poem that gathers fragments of selves into a wondrous whole.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Sun Broker
- Poor Memorial
- Motion
- Limited Eclipse
- Finish Line
- Hardwired
- Enskied
- Skidding Meditations
- A Void’s Void
- This Time of Hour
- That’s That
- Extraordinary Means
- Fresh Report
- Setting My Worry against These Trees
- Two -Body Problem
- Soft Tank
- Times
- Fissure
- Recovery Time
- After Ma Zhiyuan
- Saccade
- Sober at 6 AM
- Unbecoming
- Poor Ear, Mine Own Instrument
- Emergency Chandelier
- Archangel
- One. Night
- Tin Foil
- Guest Speaker
- The Station of Prince Edward
- Equipoise
- The Womb I Knew
- Voyage
- Wake
- Father to Be
- Bicycles
- Immobile Sun, Immobile Moon
- Open-Source Apology
- Runner-Up
- The Withheld Detail of the Dream
- Failed Self-Portrait
- Acknowledgments
- Iowa Poetry Prize and Edwin Ford Piper Poetry Award Winners
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