No Object

by Natalie Shapero

Overview

“It is unbefitting to believe in ghosts, to believe what one reads,/what one writes,” writes Natalie Shapero in her mischievous debut collection. With sharp wit and relentless questioning, Shapero crafts poems a reader can, if not believe in, then trust—to level with us, to surprise us, and to stay with us long after we put the book down. No Object is a fast ride you will not easily forget.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780983368670
Publisher:	Saturnalia Books
Publication date:	03/01/2013
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

NATALIE SHAPERO has worked as a civil rights lawyer and a teacher, and is currently a fellow with The Kenyon Review. Her poems have been published in Poetry, FIELD, The New Republic, and elsewhere.

Table of Contents

Invocation: The Third and Fourth Generation of Them That Hate Me
Stars
You’re Allowed
Kidding, Kidding
Through In Zero Gravity
Four Fights
Sometimes Harmful Never Helpful
Read It and Weep
Examples of How to Search
Ten Lines on a Drop Ad
Implausible Travel Plans
A Cup, the Amount of Blood in a Human Heart
I Don’t Sleep in White
Orange On the Nail
One Hundred Degrees Is Not Twice As Cold As Fifty Degrees
Bad Key
Horse Story
Lean Time
News to Me
Stranger
Little Winter
Nominal Ordinal Interval Ratio
Our War
Spare Me
Arranged Hours
Hostile Platitudes
No Please After You
Hot (Normal)
Flags and Axes
Admonishment
You Call This Composition
The English End
My Life and Work
Close Space
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What People are Saying About This

Denise Duhamel

“Shapero fastens you in a roller coaster car that creeps up a rickety hill, zooms into an abyss, then flips upside down to deliver you safely, wanting to take the ride all over again.”