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Saint Nobodyby Amy Lemmon
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Amy Lemmon’s stunning and heart-wrenching debut, Saint Nobody, offers us a profound meditation on the body, on the tribulations and the hard-found joys of incarnation. Lemmon does not shy away from a world where “vestigial angel-parts ache to emerge” and where there doesn’t appear to be a “speck of God.” This piercing meditation takes the problem of the body, and the problem of the body in a world that often seems God-less, head-on, without flinching, and yet delivers us truths and beauty we would never have imagined. Lemmon knows that we can’t count on the intercession of an absent saint, and she refuses easy solace. Instead, she probes deeply into the pain, into the conflicting emotions of childbirth, into the birth of a child with Down Syndrome – which is probably the most extraordinary poem written on that subject – to understand the life of our body here, the body in which “pain is sharpest where my wings would be.” This is a world of urine samples, “errant” chromosomes, lost kisses, first bleedings, chaotic cells, and scars, where the blood seems ours alone, and where the words are the only bread we have that may deliver us. In the bread of her words, Lemmon has given us a profound sacrament. About the AuthorAmy Lemmon is the author of two poetry collections: Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009). Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Barrow Street, and many other magazines and anthologies. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati. She is Associate Professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology and lives with her two children in Astoria, Queens. Table of ContentsContents I. Disclaimer 2 Saint Nobody 3 Karyotype 5 In-patients 6 Scar 7 Fine Motor 8 Blight 9 Sample 10 Still Life with Fire Escape 11 Fluidity 12 Domestic Policy 13 Order 14 Iconography 15 Deconstruction 16 Home on the Pike 18 Cardinal 19
II. Coke Bottle 22 Rolling Rock I 23 Rolling Rock II 24 Rolling Rock III 25 Daze of 1987 26 A Day’s Work 27 The Puzzle 28 Venus of the Interstate 29 Hands 31 End of the Urban Experiment 32 Breaking Camp 33 Letter to Boston 34
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III. Kindred 36 Deciding on Quandary 37 The Secret Spilled 38 Cloistered 39 Dinner with the Hugheses 40 A Borrowed Book 41 Feeding a New Void 42 “The feel of your mouth on my neck—” 43 This Milk-Weed Pod Your Head 44 Home Brew 45
IV. Margins 47 Autumn Remonstration 48 Election 49 A Physics 50 A Physick 51 Tonic 52 Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra 53 Four Nocturnes 54 Monday Night Contradance 56 Vespers 59 Keats’ Eyelashes 60 Monday Aubade 61 Friday Afternoon 62 Please Be Patient 63 After DiChirico’s The Uncertainty of the Poet 64 Revival 65 Strangely Tender 66 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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