The Book of Goodbyes

Winner of the James Laughlin Award writes of sex, identity, and the power struggles within a deranged love affair.

List of contents

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments 4

One 5

Up Late and Likewise 6
The Ugly Law 7
Decent Recipe for Tilapia 11
I¿ve Been Waiting All Night 12
Café Loop 13
How to Treat Flowers 16
Affairs 19
His Girlfriend Stops By 20

Intermission 21

Tiny and Courageous Finches 22
Go On High Ship 31
Marcel Addresses Kate 36

Two 39

Why I No Longer Skype 40
Portrait of Big Logos 42
Once I thought I was going to die . . . 43
All the Littles in Exodus 47
Semi Semi Dash 48
Poem for His Ex-Girlfriend 49
Goodbyes 52
For Big Logos, In Hopes He Will Write Poems Again 54
Be Not Far From Me 57

Curtain Call 61

Elegy for Zahra Baker 62

Notes 68

About the author

Jillian Weise publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She is the author of The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, The Colony, and The Book of Goodbyes, winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times and Tin House. Weise has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Fulbright Program, the Sewanee Writers Conference and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University.

Product details

• Authors: Jillian Weise
• Publisher: BOA Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.2013
• EAN: 9781938160141
• ISBN: 978-1-938160-14-1
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 458 g
• Series: American Poets Continuum; American Poets Continuum
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies