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Jill McDonough's frank, funny, and tender second book offers
each day fresh with the gift of it. Fierce/nose-sting of tears, quick breath out of nowhere. In love-poems, conversations, intimate jokes, from a hundred parties, five prisons, and three beloved bars, McDonough helps you better see "Where You Live".
List of contents
- ONE
- Annunciation
- Breasts Like Martinis
- Dear Gaybashers
- On Being Asked "What is Poetry?"
- Great Day at the Athenaeum
- What Washed Ashore
- Particular Crimes
- The House I Live In; or The Human Body
- Poem About the Body
- Of Women's Testicles
- In Which I Start to Get a Migraine and Think of Hildegard Von Bingen
- My History of CPR
- This House We Live In
- Amos D. Squire, Chief Physician of Sing Sing 1914-1925
- Dream Aubade
- Husky Boys' Dickies
- Ghazal: Sappho Calls on Aphrodite
- Ardent
- We're human beings
- Monica at DB's Golden Banana
- Pikadon
- Kanji
- The American Museum of Natural History's Charles Darwin Exhibit
- Cary Grant
- Runaway
- Pollard in Nantucket, 1870
- The Health Adventure
- Transplant
- Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
- Preface
- An Hour with an Etruscan Sarcophagus
- TWO
- Three a.m.
- Parties
- Worth Living
- Alleged
- Fort Point Crutch
- Ghazal for Josey
- Brown County Courthouse, Green Bay
- What Hell's Really Like
- That Other Aubade
- Toward a Lawn
- How Happiness Works
- Women's Prison Every Week
- Golden Gate Hank
- Heat Shield
- THREE
- Accident, Mass. Ave.
- August
- Constantine
- Shape of a House
- Getting Shot on Your Birthday
- Coffee for Everyone
- This Is Your Chance
- Toddler Christ
- Villon's Epitaph
- Status
- Assignment
- Habed
- Present
- Bartholomeus Breenbergh: Venus Mourning the Death of Adonis
- We Hate That Tree
- Where You Live
- Blackwater
- Angela, From Wisconsin
- After Hours in the Alembic
- Married
About the author
Pushcart prize winner Jill McDonough’s first book of poems, Habeas Corpus, was published by Salt in 2008. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford’s Stegner program, she taught incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work appears in Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, and Best American Poetry 2011. She teaches poetry at the University of Massachusetts Boston and directs 24PearlStreet, the online writing program at the Fine Arts Work Center.
