Caki Wilkinson - Circles Where the Head Should Be.pdf

(590 KB) Pobierz
1054105050.001.png
©2011 Caki Wilkinson
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Permissions:
University of North Texas Press
1155 Union Circle #311336
Denton, TX 76203-5017
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the
American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed
Library Materials, z39.48.1984. Binding materials have been chosen for
durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wilkinson, Caki, 1980-
Circles where the head should be :
poems/ by Caki Wilkinson. -- 1st ed.
p. em. -- (Number 18 in the Vassar Miller prize in poetry series)
Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2010
ISBN 978-1-57441-309-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
I. Title. II. Series: Vassar Miller prize in poetry series; no. 18.
PS3623.I553C57 2011
811 '.6--dc22
2010043126
Circles Where the Head Should Be is Number 18
n
the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry Series
Cover illustration Chamonix is by Ian Carpenter. Used by permission.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
I.
Cosmogony 3
Lares and Penates
4
Bower Bird 6
Lady on a Unicycle 8
Same Lady, Different Unicycle
9
The Truth About Effects
10
Genealogy 11
Girl Under Bug Zapper 14
Portrait of the Artist with Toothpick Bridge
15
Itinerant 16
Mnemosyne 17
Fisher King 19
Bildungsroman
21
II.
The School by the Zoo 27
I. Big Sandstone Building in Memory of
27
II. Ecce Signum! 28
III. Involution 29
IV. Swan Song 30
V. Dramatis Personae
31
VI. Interiors 32
VII. Ofices 33
VIII. “The monkeys make sorrowful noises overhead”
34
IX. “I’ve been to the zoo. I said, I’ve been to the zoo”
35
X. Perspectives 36
XI. Shaping Behaviors
37
XII. Women’s Studies
38
XIII. Ichnology 39
XIV. Ichthyology 40
XV. Reciprocity 41
XVI. Mutatis Mutandis
42
III.
Tactics: A Short Lesson 45
Portrait of the Artist with Paint-by-Numbers
47
Svengali Deck 48
Plot Twists 50
Flea Circus 52
Felix Culpa 53
Epithalamium 54
Storm and Stress
56
Aftermath 57
Dead Matter
59
Assisted Living
60
Miniatures 62
The Truth About Distance 64
A Correlated History of Synchronicity
66
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgment is made to the following publications for
poems that irst appeared in them, sometimes in slightly
different form.
32 Poems : “Shaping Behaviors”
American Poetry Journal : “Girl Under Bug Zapper”
The Atlantic : “Bower Bird”
Birmingham Poetry Review : “Mnemosyne,” “ Ecce Signum !”
“Involution” and “Ofices”
Black Warrior Review : “Fisher King”
Cincinnati Review : “Miniatures”
Measure : “Dead Matter”
Oxford American : “Genealogy” and “Itinerant”
Poetry : “Cosmogony” and “Lares and Penates”
Raintown Review: “Women’s Studies”
Sewanee Theological Review : “Bildungsroman”
Smartish Pace : “Assisted Living,” “The Truth About Distance”
Southwest Review : “A Correlated History of Synchronicity”
Unsplendid : “Lady on a Unicycle”
Yale Anthology of Younger American Poetry (forthcoming):
“Bower Bird,” “Cosmogony,” “Girl Under Bug Zapper”
and “Lady on a Unicycle”
Yale Review : “Storm and Stress”
Verse Daily (reprints): “Fisher King” and “Lady on a Unicycle”
I would like to thank Johns Hopkins University, the University
of Cincinnati, and the Poetry Foundation for supporting me
with generous fellowships.
Many thanks as well to the directors, cast, and crew of the
Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and to my teachers and friends,
who so often are one and the same.

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika:

Zgłoś jeśli naruszono regulamin