Flinch of Song

Flinch of Song

by Jennifer Militello
Flinch of Song

Flinch of Song

by Jennifer Militello

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Overview

Jennifer Militello’s work is ruminative and lyrical but with an unusually theatrical verve, which is displayed in associative leaps so agile that readers will be exhilarated by the imagination at work (and play) in each poem. This powerfully unified first book grapples with what is simultaneously gigantic and miniscule in human existence: the momentous everyday dramas of love and family.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781932195767
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Publication date: 11/01/2009
Series: 2009 Subscription Series
Pages: 64
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Author of the chapbook Anchor Chain, Open Sail (Finishing Line Press, 2006) and widely published in journals, including DENVER QUARTERLY, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The North American Review, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Verse, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, Jennifer Militello has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Writers at Work, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She lives in New Hampshire and teaches at River Valley Community College. Jennifer Militello was named a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's 2010 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Manifestation
The Museum of Being Born

The Museum of Being Born / 5
History of the Always Pain / 6
Passing for Red / 7
The Objectless Place, an Ether Twist / 8
History of Siblings / 9
Confusing Past with Passion / 10
Sympathy/Wisdom / 11
Allergic / 12
I Have Never Stood Outside a House Burned Down / 13
Game with Hours Galloping, a Garland / 14

Manifestation
Dark, Godless Reactions

After Days Not Found / 19
The Zero to Breaking / 20
The Window Painted Shut / 21
From Panama, From Ashes / 22
Infliction / 23
Recipe for the Motorcyclist's Leather Gloves / 24
Aprilia / 26
Reunion / 27
Taking Care / 28
The Conductor's Last Call Before Leaving / 29
North, with the Ingredients for Rain / 30
A Thorn in the Softest Part of the Hand / 31
What We No Longer Know / 32
(start) / 33

Manifestation
Identity Narrative

Identity Narrative / 37
Living Where the Halyards Can Be Heard / 38
A Thunderstorm Reminds Me of My Convictions / 39
Self-Portrait as Someone Else / 40
Instructions to a Portraitist / 43/
One Side of the Story / 42
This Is Elementary / 43
Flinch / 44
There's No Such Thing as a Typical Day / 45
Slow the Bleeding / 46

Manifestation
The Last Burning Room

A Summary of Roots / 51
Answering Fear As If It Were a Question / 52
Questions of Perception / 53
Roam Season / 54
Until We Have No Children / 55
Resignation / 56
The Museum of Being, Ended / 57
Azrael Speaks / 59
Miserere / 60

Acknowledgments / 62
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