As Is: Poems
As Is gathers everyday poems written over time and mostly at the poet’s home in the Ridge and Valley province of northern Appalachia. This work pays attention to the world as it is with curiosity, candor, and delight. Seeking connection with others and the earth and savoring the fine details of a messy life, these poems reckon with the demands of family, pandemic, aging, and loss even as they witness injustice, violence, environmental degradation, and climate crisis.
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As Is: Poems
As Is gathers everyday poems written over time and mostly at the poet’s home in the Ridge and Valley province of northern Appalachia. This work pays attention to the world as it is with curiosity, candor, and delight. Seeking connection with others and the earth and savoring the fine details of a messy life, these poems reckon with the demands of family, pandemic, aging, and loss even as they witness injustice, violence, environmental degradation, and climate crisis.
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As Is: Poems

As Is: Poems

by Julia Spicher Kasdorf
As Is: Poems
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As Is: Poems

As Is: Poems

by Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Overview

As Is gathers everyday poems written over time and mostly at the poet’s home in the Ridge and Valley province of northern Appalachia. This work pays attention to the world as it is with curiosity, candor, and delight. Seeking connection with others and the earth and savoring the fine details of a messy life, these poems reckon with the demands of family, pandemic, aging, and loss even as they witness injustice, violence, environmental degradation, and climate crisis.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822989813
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 01/17/2023
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 80
File size: 878 KB

About the Author

Julia Spicher Kasdorf is the author of Sleeping Preacher, Eve’s Striptease, Poetry in America, and Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, a documentary project created in collaboration with photographer Steven Rubin. She has also published a collection of essays, The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, and a biographical study, Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American.

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FRESHET 

 

Born when the mountain rushes 

with sudden, small streams, 

 

when coltsfoot shoves its hooves— 

thick-stemmed, fringed suns— 

 

up through dead leaves,  

and the sumac’s maroon torches  

 

 finally fade, Love, leave  

your desk, come to the woods 

 

where all is urge and bird-flurry 

yearning toward sky. 

 

Table of Contents

Contents I They Call It a Strip Job Sweetgum Testing City of the Dead War What the Hemlock Said Climate Change with Daughter and Tomatoes Gideons American Bittersweet At Cross Creek Park Eastern Box Turtle American Chestnut Plantation As Is II Precious Memories Help Yourself Hand me Down Flags When I Say Is That What You’re Wearing? When I Say Make a List When I Say Clean your Room When I Say Okay, Take My Car When I Say It’s Your Life Waking Up with Jerry Sandusky Second Space Bruder Short Story Valentine with Domestic Life Adrift Lake Trail, January Dialogue with Lake Perez III Lit They Call Them Desire Lines Viking Ribstones, Alberta Amaryllis Freshet Goats Helpmate October Snow Luck Home Farm August Friday, Adirondacks Gulls Outer Banks Epithalamium Meditation at Panama City Beach, Florida Unnamed Tributary Notes Acknowledgments
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