Bend

by Natasha Sajï

Overview

“[D]ivulges the spirit of a sensualist and the habits of a contemplative; sometimes vice versa. Colors are separated with the veracity of paint. Shifts in temperature are registered and background noises distinguished, not only for texture’s sake but for their essential contribution to the poems’ substance. Fine foods are sung and individual words lit. For company Sajé summons a curious assortment of lettered forbears including Cotton Mather, Henry Vaughan, Nietzsche, Proust, Gertrude Stein, and Mary Shelley. A virtuous and subtly depraved book is Bend.”
—C.D. Wright

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932195033
Publisher:	Tupelo Press
Publication date:	12/31/2004
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.28(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Natasha Sajé was born in Germany and grew up in New York City and northern New Jersey. Her first book of poems, Red Under the Skin (Pittsburgh, 1994), received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and the Towson Prize in Literature. Her poems, essays, and reviews appear in The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, New Republic, Parnassus, Shenandoah, and The Writers Chronicle, among others. Sajé teaches at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, and in the Vermont College MFA in Writing program.

Table of Contents

	A Minor Riot at the Mint	1
	Reading Henry Fowler's Modern English Usage in Salt Lake City in November	5
	In the Garden	7
	Fruit	8
	Heloise to Abelard	9
	Wonders of the Invisible World	10
	Welcome, Reader	12
	Between the Lines	13
	White	14
	I See	15
	Wave	16
	We Saw No Caribou	17
	Passing	19
	Trouble	21
	Tale	22
	Open That Door	23
	Heaven	24
	Chicken Scratch	26
	Leave No Trace	27
	Bad News	28
	Beyond Good and Evil	29
	Song of the Cook	30
	Scrabble	31
	Regrets	33
	Thanksgiving	34
	Marcel at the Station House	37
	The Statues	40
	Vice	41
	The Philosopher's Name Was Misspelled Everywhere	43
	Story of a Marriage	44
	Baltimore	45
	My Secret Life	47
	Seven Types of Ambiguity	48
	I Want but Can't Remember	49
	Reading the Menu	50
	Pink Parken	51
	I am peeling four pink grapefruit	52
	Graphology	53
	Avatar	54
	View of Utrecht	55
	On Melancholy	56
	Divine Plan: Eastern State Penitentiary	57
	A Girl of the Streets	59
	The Art of the Novel	60
	Night Writing	61
	Catamenia	62
	Dear One	63
	The Tunnel	64
	Parabola	66
	Channel	68
	Acknowledgments	71