Sentimental Standards

Sentimental Standards

by Lynne McMahon
Sentimental Standards

Sentimental Standards

by Lynne McMahon

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Overview

Lynne McMahon has a genius for making poetry of the ordinary, for transforming those things we most take for granted into aspects for intricate contemplation. As G. E. Murray put it in The Southern Review, “Perhaps ‘rearranging molecules’ of thought and language is the best way to describe how she uses the unconscious to grab the reader's attention.”


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781567922578
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
Publication date: 04/20/2004
Pages: 67
Product dimensions: 5.68(w) x 8.92(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

Lynne McMahon has published three poetry collections with Godine: Devolution of the Nude, The House of Entertaining Science, and Sentimental Standards. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Nation, Rolling Stone, The Paris Review, and many other publications.

Table of Contents

Sunlight, darling1
Birthday Poem2
At the House of Chow3
Marriage Dissolving in the Upstairs Room5
Depression Vacation7
Danger9
Wedding Ring11
Junked Boiler13
We Take Our Children to Ireland15
At the Batting Cage17
Cry Me a River18
Out in It19
Pink Rock20
Bliss23
After Bliss24
Sentimental Standards26
In Love with It, If It Requires No Tending28
A General Introduction to My Garden29
On Deciding to Fire My Chiropractor41
Brit Lit Survey: Blake to Larkin43
At the Monster Truck Races45
Street Fair49
Harrah's51
Sprat Rain Sonnet52
Conspiracy Theory53
Summer Ceremonial54
October Walk with Zach55
More to the Point56
Recounting58
He Stoops59
Ambidextrous61
I Watch You in the Rocheport Flood63
Fedora64
T.V. Ears66
He Takes Me To See the Oldest Tree68
Acknowledgments70
A Note on the Type72
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