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Kim Addonizio

What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Reader, I am here
    to assure you of the truth of this account.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    how you grew up believing anyway that romance
    was going to tuck you under its tender white wing
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    all the flies getting married to the corpses
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    and carry you off to someplace where you’d never notice
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    of bloated deer and raccoons by the roadside,
    or the man outside the corner store, engaged
    to every dusty bottle on the shelf, or the penned cows
    yearning for the hammer to the skull, for something certain;
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    in the boutique hotel, where in the bathroom
    there are little soaps and lotions, a sewing kit
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    crashing through the shrubs and sending
    the lizards skittering, scattering the methodical ants
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Grazie—for their generous criticism of this manuscript, and for being my love-dogs: Susan Browne, Cheryl Dumesnil, Lisa Glatt and David Hernandez, Dorianne Laux and Joe Millar, Ruth Schwartz. For all their support: Steve Huff and Thom Ward of BOA Editions. Much gratitude, for asking: Jill Bialosky. And for being my corner man, Rob McQuilkin.
    Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following journals where many of these poems were published, sometimes in different versions: American Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Bloomsbury Review, Chelsea, Cimarron Review, Connecticut Review, Denver Quarterly, Five Points, Iowa Review, Margie, Pearl, Poetry, Poetry International, Runes, Salt Hill, Threepenny Review, Water~Stone.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    “Miniatures” was awarded first place in the Davoren Hanna Poetry Competition and first appeared online.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    well then
    I don’t want to know you anyway
    and I don’t give a fuck what you think
    of my poem
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