My Second Work
“The soul remembers all of this. How I swept the floor / with my golden hair. How I fed it watermelon and wine / from a porcelain dish. How I called it teacher and it called me teacher’s pet.”

Metaphysical in concern and hypermodern in tone, Bridget Lowe returns in this appropriately titled, much-anticipated second collection, determined as ever to make meaning from the perversity of suffering. My Second Work is rare in its ability to be both completely idiosyncratic and widely resonant, as Lowe transforms experiences of shame, disgust, and bewilderment into a kind of mutant hope. Poems in this collection have appeared in the New Yorker and Poetry and were honored by the Poetry Society of America.
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My Second Work
“The soul remembers all of this. How I swept the floor / with my golden hair. How I fed it watermelon and wine / from a porcelain dish. How I called it teacher and it called me teacher’s pet.”

Metaphysical in concern and hypermodern in tone, Bridget Lowe returns in this appropriately titled, much-anticipated second collection, determined as ever to make meaning from the perversity of suffering. My Second Work is rare in its ability to be both completely idiosyncratic and widely resonant, as Lowe transforms experiences of shame, disgust, and bewilderment into a kind of mutant hope. Poems in this collection have appeared in the New Yorker and Poetry and were honored by the Poetry Society of America.
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My Second Work

My Second Work

by Bridget Lowe
My Second Work

My Second Work

by Bridget Lowe

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“The soul remembers all of this. How I swept the floor / with my golden hair. How I fed it watermelon and wine / from a porcelain dish. How I called it teacher and it called me teacher’s pet.”

Metaphysical in concern and hypermodern in tone, Bridget Lowe returns in this appropriately titled, much-anticipated second collection, determined as ever to make meaning from the perversity of suffering. My Second Work is rare in its ability to be both completely idiosyncratic and widely resonant, as Lowe transforms experiences of shame, disgust, and bewilderment into a kind of mutant hope. Poems in this collection have appeared in the New Yorker and Poetry and were honored by the Poetry Society of America.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780887486548
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publication date: 02/18/2020
Series: Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series
Edition description: 1
Pages: 72
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Bridget Lowe is the author of At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky, also published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems have appeared widely in publications including the New YorkerPoetry, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, the New Republic, Parnassus, A Public Space, and elsewhere. She lives in Kansas City.

Table of Contents

Revival 13

Wretches 14

The Understudy 15

These Are But the Outskirts of His Ways 16

Reenactment 17

Secret Garden of Regrets 18

Lady Randall 19

The Unicorn in Captivity 20

Work Without Hope 21

Advent 22

Willow Tree 24

And Now I Am Old, and Sad, and Prepared for Whatever Average Fortune Throws My Way 26

Luck 29

Mother Daughter Story 30

Outhouse with Maggots 32

Stacy, Even In the Dream 33

Justice, a Pornography 35

My First Job 36

Revenge of the Nerds (1984) 38

Working Girls 39

My Second Job 40

Sad Song with a Color in It 42

The Unicorn Defends Itself 43

Jack's Shame 44

In a Suburb 47

Sea World 52

Discourse on the Arts and Sciences 53

Casa Presidente Which Is Southwest 54

Key Which Is Chacbak LLC Which Are Two Brownsville Texas Real Estate Developers Secretary Blues (Friday) 55

Nurse of Medea 56

The Singular Burden 57

Imperfect Allegory for a Situation of 58

Which I Am Not Permitted to Speak Secretary Blues (Lunch Break) 63

Labor Day 64

Splendor in the Greenish Grasse 65

Rocksteady in Dimension X 66

Notes

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