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A rich and challenging new collection from the young award-winning poet
In those days I began to see light under everybushel basket, light nearly splittingthe sides of the bushel basket. Light camethrough the rafters of the dairy where the gracklescongregated like well-taxed citizensuntransfigured even by hope. Understand I was the oneunderneath the basket.
I was certain I had nothing to say.
When I grew restless in the interior,
the exterior gave.Dense, rich, and challenging, Katie Peterson's
A Piece of Good News explores interior and exterior landscapes, exposure, and shelter. Imbued with a hallucinatory poetic logic where desire, anger, and sorrow supplant intelligence and reason, these poems are powerful meditations of mourning, love, doubt, political citizenship, and happiness. Learned, wise, and witty, Peterson explodes the possibilities of the poetic voice in this remarkable and deeply felt collection.
List of contents
The Border
Pleasure
A Citizen
Opera
Happiness
Speech on a Summer Night
The Fountain
The Massachusetts Book of the Dead
Provisioning
Echo Before the Echo
The Photographer
An Offering
New Parable
The Economy
The Government
The Reward
The Bargain
Autobiographical Fragment
Filibuster to Delay the Spring
The Sentence
Date
In Your Body
Sweetness in the Face
Music, 1980
Self Help
Honeymoon Suite
Paul Bowles
Note
Acknowledgments
About the author
Katie Peterson
