Solve for Desire: Poems

"The work of a poet who sings, boldly, across the distances between us." -SRIKANTH REDDY

List of contents

Contents

I.

Whoever Drinks from Me

Lost Letter

Pigeons

Church, Hipbone

This Is the House

Poem about Desire

The Heart Is to a Pleasant Thing

Detonate

Incantare

Poem about Desire

Right Light

The Field That Resists Naming

The Pond

All You Can Do Is Imagine the Leaving

False Narrative

How We Prepared for War

In the Company of a Blue Apparatus

II.

This Is a Life

Definition Of

The Trick Is Small

Hull

Absence Anatomy

Grete Writes to Georg at War

Where We Are Both Well

Nocturne

On Never Marrying Him

Little Pieces

Dream II

Poem about Desire

Some Elaborate

Given the Depth

Somewhere a Key

III.

Spin

Grete Asks the Hard Question

Animus

Keening

Poppies

Men I Could Have Loved

Litany for G

Umwelt

Wild Boat

IV.

Love Lustrum

On the One-Year Anniversary of Your Death

To Coax a Wound

Poem about Desire

Sanatorium

Burden and Roar

Tethered

Paradise

Riot

Unfetter

What Comes After

The Poem about Birds I Can't Write

To G, after the Party

Living Without

About the author

Caitlin Bailey has published poems in Prairie Schooner, Hayden's Ferry Review, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Hamline University and lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Product details

• Authors: Caitlin Bailey
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781571314994
• ISBN: 978-1-57131-499-4
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 213 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 150 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Amerika, Poetry, POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss