Date of Original Version
12-4-2008
Type
Thesis
Abstract or Table of Contents
The Farmhouse—11
My Utility, My Vanity—12
Letters to Imaginary Friends—13
Pomegranate—15
Oysters—16
When I Marry Audrey—17
The Barsotti Buddha—18
Talk—19
Poem for the Unemployed Glassblowers—20
Devotion—21
Rest and Cleansing Moon—22
Gravity—23
Libra—24
Adam—25
Before the Fall—26
Nursing Ezra—27
To Our Daughter—28
Milk Moon—29
Faustina’s Recipe for Songbirds—30
Virgo—31
Royal Sable—32
Winter Poem—33
Mad Moon—34
On the Front Porch with My Father, Years Later—35
The Asylum—36
Octopus—37
Erie or Ontario—38
Dream Poem—40
Social Circle—41
The Bees Are Disappearing—42
Ninetieth Letter to Texas—43
Cinderella, with All of Her Names for Servitude—44
Creature—45
This Is My Holiest Hour—46
Hunger Moon—47
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Comments
Advisor: Terrance Hayes
Degree: BHA Creative Writing and Book Arts