The Arrangements

by Kate Colby

Overview

The short, spare poems of The Arrangements are concerned with physical and ideological boundaries of body, mind and language, exploring where they meet and the different ways in which they bleed into and maintain one another’s discreteness. Praise for Colby's book, I Mean: “With verve and purpose, Colby plays trick after alluring trick to write herself in and out of meaning.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945588211
Publisher:	Four Way Books
Publication date:	09/04/2018
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

KATE COLBY is the author of seven books of poetry. Fruitlands won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2007. She is a founding board member of the Gloucester Writers Center in Massachusetts and lives in Providence, where she was a 2012 fellow of the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts.

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CHAPTER 1

Inside Job
The Burial

Pine

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Table of Contents

The One

Inside Job 3

Middleman 4

View 5

Half Bad for Almost 40 6

Platform 7

The One 9

Strand 10

The System 12

Green Blind 13

Stoup 14

Bulletin 15

Bog Star 16

Exhibit A 17

The Beholder 18

Two Sentences 19

Then-Wife 20

Boxing Day 22

The Arrangements 24

Homing 31

Poem 33

The Burial

Pine 39

Theory 40

Beauty Contest 41

Métier Pants 43

Inlet 44

Asarotum 45

Yours Truly 46

Promise 47

Overhead 49

Cure 51

Castaway 52

Red Nun 54

Piece 56

Wistless 57

Error Message 58

Radiator 59

Look Out 60

Dead Reckoning 61

Bad Star 62

The Plunge 64

Remains 65

Prospect 67

Reflection on an Indoor Pool 68

Bad Crucible 70

Broad Night 71

Croatoan 72

The Curse 73

Overextended 75

Sound 76

Restoration 78

The Burial 80

To Be Continued 84

Annunciation 85

What People are Saying About This

Paul Hoover

“. . . She asks the right questions, the ones rooted in nature and to which there is no answer.”

Heather Christle

“ . . . This is an electrifying collection, simultaneously wild and precise. It rearranged my mind into its best shape, eager to learn how to be part of the day and its world.”

Editorial Reviews

Counteractions, counterindications, and impossible interactions mark this meticulously crafted and sonically alluring seventh collection from Colby. . . . Readers may come away from this collection with simultaneous feelings of dread and wisdom, as well as a deep admiration for Colby’s almost obsessively focused eye for detail.”


—Publishers Weekly

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