Authors: Laura Kasischke
Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #Poetry, #Regional & Cultural, #United States, #American
Space, in Chains (8 page)
The Chinese character for poetry is made up of two parts: “word” and “temple.” It also serves as pressmark for Copper Canyon Press.
The text is set in Aldus, designed by Hermann Zapf. The heads are set in Legato, designed by Evert Bloemsma. Book design and composition by Valerie Brewster, Scribe Typography. Printed on archival-quality paper at McNaughton & Gunn, Inc.
Table of Contents
O elegant giant
Riddle
Memory of grief
Song
Time
After Ken Burns
My beautiful soul
The photograph album in the junk shop
Landscape with one of the earthworm’s ten hearts
The inner workings
Hospital parking lot, April
View from glass door
July
Wasps
Dawn
Look
Rain
Peace
Pharmacy
Medical dream
Near misses
The key to the tower
Space, in chains
We watch my father try to put on his shirt
The call of the one duck flying south
Your headache
Space, between humans & gods
Swan logic
Riddle
The drinking couple, similes
Your last day
O elegant giant
At the public pool
My son makes a gesture my mother used to make
Recipe for disaster
Atoms on loan
Dread
Wormwood
The sweet by-and-by
Thanksgiving
Mercy
My son practicing the violin
Stolen shoes
Passion-in-July
Cigarettes
Cytoplasm, June
Riddle
The knot
Animal, vegetable, mineral, mist
Riddle
Confession
You
Abigor
Forgiveness
Pain pill
Almost there
The Pleasure Center
Lunch
Trees in fog
Summer
The organizers
Four men
Briefly
They say
Receipt
Life support
My father’s mansion
Heart/mind
Riddle
Love poem
Tools and songs
Home
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