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Foxlogic, Fireweed follows a lyrical sequence of five physical and emotional terrains—floodplain, coast, desert, suburbia, mesa—braiding themes of nature, domesticity, isolation, and human relationships to recover a connectivity and wonder that seems drained from the screen-tick of daily life.
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Acknowledgments
1 (whole flocks of rain) Letter from the Sound
I will break into my life for my life Bat Milk
Poem for My Son in the Car
Outside My Window Is a Window
Crickets, Vespers
Old Town Square
The Pear Trees at Terezín
Altar: Compass
Alpenhorn
Wildest
2 (I am driving a whale heart) Preface
I am driving a whale heart
Wind under the Skin
Picking Up My Wedding Dress
Variation on Bear and Moon
Jennifers of the 1970s
In the House of Seals
To Remain in Perhaps Every morning we boarded our little ship
The Somnambulist
3 (brighten the road, dear) Duet
When we were carnies
Still Life with Djembe and Black Widow
The Day Everywhere and White
Snake in the Zendo
Tree; Tremble Cul-de-sac
The Game of Life Landslide
Eclipse
The Snow Leopard Mother
4 (part fur part hollow) Foxlogic, Fireweed
Tinderbox
Making Use
Altar: Fairytale
A Deer Story
Still Life with Skeleton and Sight Word
Vigil
How Many Leaves and Boats Gather Together
Cabinet of Curiosities
What Turkeys Can Teach Us about Grief in Suburbia
5 (in a circular wind)bike shed will often show more results than
“bike shed” Antlers
For the brown widow who laid her eggs under my son’s bicycle seat
Altar: Aerial Heart
Pastoral
Our Laundry Room of Deflated Balloons
Meeting
Three-Handed Clock
Nacelle and Turn
Ceremony
Notes
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of three other poetry collections, including
Little Spells,
How to Live on Bread and Music, and
Salt Memory. The recipient of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and a Pushcart Prize, she teaches at the University of Redlands in California.
