Cloud Pharmacy

by Susan Rich

Overview

"Cloud Pharmacy is a book of lyric fire. In our epoch of quick and shallow literary conversation it is rare to come across such level of attentiveness as one finds in this book."—Ilya Kaminsky

"In a central sequence, Rich explores nineteenth-century photographer Hannah Maynard's proto-surrealistic images, looking in grief-heavy places for revelation. The result is wonderfully strange and unsettling; this is Rich's most haunting collection yet."—Kathleen Flenniken

"Rich's gorgeous poems affix moments, both magnificent and minute. And in exquisite and playful poems, a pageant of a life in process develops before our eyes."—Oliver de la Paz

Susan Rich is the author of three previous collections of poetry. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935210535
Publisher:	White Pine Press
Publication date:	02/11/2014
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Susan Rich is the author of three previous collections of poetry, The Alchemist’s Kitchen, a Finalist for the Foreword Prize and the Washington State Book Award; Cures Include Travel, and The Cartographer’s Tongue / Poems of the World, winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry. She has received awards from Artist Trust, the Times Literary Supplement Award of London, and the Fulbright Foundation. Together with Brian Turner and Jared Hawkley, she is editor of The Strangest of Theatres: Poets Crossing Borders. Susan’s poems appear in the Antioch Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review and Triquarterly. She lives and writes in Seattle, WA.

Table of Contents

Apothecary

Blue Grapes 15

Tunnel 16

There is No Substance That Does Not Carry One Inside of It 18

The Self 19

History of a Kiss 20

Childhood Study: Fires Late August 21

Clouds, Begin Here 22

Date 23

Embellishing the Picture 25

Naming It 27

American History 29

Geography IV 30

Andalucía 31

Abstract 33

Love Study in Nature 34

Angle of Approach

Dear Self 37

Invention of Everything Else 38

Never Simple 40

Life Study: College Love Poem 41

Hotel Strange in 103° 42

Here Are the Pictures Taken When We Were Alive 43

The Burning Bush 44

Dutch Courtyard 46

In A Village West of Galway 47

Manservant 49

Weathervane 50

In this Galaxy of Seeing So Much Remains Unseen 51

Life Study: Camellias 52

Visitation 53

Darling, This Relationship is Damned 54

You Who No Longer Concern Me 56

The World No Longer Resembles Itself 57

Dark Room

Tricks a Girl Can Do 61

The Process of Unraveling in Plain Sight 62

Dieffenbachia Gem 63

Endless Forms, Most Beautiful 64

Strange Symmetry of Past, of Present 65

The Tangible, Intangible 67

Hannah, Decanter, and Cloud 68

Another Way of Telling

Sugar, You Know Who You Are 73

Stories from Strange Lands 74

Cloud Pharmacy 76

Letter to M 77

The Tide Tables Foretold the Future in Our Hands 78

Conundrum 80

Perhaps You Are- 81

After Shiva 83

What Hodan Tells Me 84

Anniversary 85

Cougar Ridge 87

After, Ever After 88

Going- 89

Faraway 90

The World to Come 91

Notes and Dedications 93

Acknowledgements 95

The Author 96