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Through her fervent lyrics, delightful odes and image-rich narratives, Janlori Goldman invites us into her world.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Winter Solstice 1
I.
Washing Dishes in Evergreen, Colorado 3
Yom Kippur 5
Bungalow, The Catskills 6
Summer Flu 7
Ode to Jacob Blinder 8
That Chocolate Cake 9
Burying Ground 10
Seed Money, 3rd Grade 11
One Soft Place 12
Home 14
Until Mother Put an End to That 15
Mother, So Happy 16
Ode To Milton Avery’s Speedboat’s Wake, 1972 17
II.
At the Cubbyhole Bar 19
The End of the World 20
Amber Cloud 21
Emergency Room 22
Elegy for Your Breasts 23
4 a.m. 24
The Argument 25
Cyclone 26
Elvira 27
The 8th Circle 28
Ode to Blue 29
III.
Bread from a Stranger’s Oven 31
Walking Cure 32
She-Grief 33
Cranberries are the Tartest of Fruit 34
Ode to My Gallbladder 35
Japanese Beetles 37
Sergeant Roy’s Reveille 38
Murmuration 39
Baking in the Last Month 40
The Waiting Room 41
The Story, For Now 42
Two Seeds 44
Still Here 45
IV.
Chanukah 47
The Language of Math 48
Waiting for Birds 49
Ode to Stretchmarks 50
Bone Hollow Road 51
Tear of the Clouds 52
Catch What Falls 53
Magnolia 54
Knot 55
Ode to Fever 56
Blue Blaze 58
Grapefruit 59
About the author
Janlori Goldman: Janlori Goldman is a poet, teacher and activist. Bread from a Stranger’s Oven is her first full-length book. Her chapbook "Akhmatova’s Egg" was published by Toadlily Press. Gerald Stern chose her poem ‘At the Cubbyhole Bar’ for the 2012 Raynes Prize.
Summary
Through her fervent lyrics, delightful odes and image-rich narratives, Janlori Goldman invites us into her world.
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