The House that Grief Built
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This book-length collection of poetry weaves together themes of family, religion, food, gardening, and grief as experienced by the author and her relatives. Through the eyes of a first-generation American (on her mother’s side) and the daughter of a Greek Orthodox priest, the author utilizes imagery of nature and domesticity as she pursues independence and explores the metaphoric bridges that connect dreams and reality, disappointment and hope, estrangement and love.
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Introduction -- The architect, Memory -- Biblical blueprint : Etch-a-Sketch Iconography ; Catholic Bastard ; Swearing Repentance ; Canonical Sonnet: At Father Phil’s New Church ; Heirloom Flatware at the Thrift Store ; Baltic Refugee in Iowa ; My Grandmother, At Times -- Cornerstones and sandburs : Contractions, Close ; Ballad of the Baffled Artists ; Moments: Mom Meant ; Terminal Marriage ; A Dried Rose is a Dried Rose is— ; To the Page ; First Supper, Last Rights ; Looking Dawn Straight in the Eye ; Where We Landed ; The High Plains: Garden City, Kansas ; 106 Degrees, In Memoriam ; Running with the Rutter Bros. ; Autumn, After the Drought -- Razor-wired walls : Middle-Aged, Mid-American Rant ; Trashcan Etiquette, Third Shift ; Separate Spheres ; Detention Center: Third Shift, Dream On ; J.D.C. Bed Check, 3:05 a.m. ; Power of Metaphor -- Cityscaping with seeds : Director’s Cut: Vicarious Storm ; Green Lady Lounge ; Weather Report from the Borderline ; Frames of Reference: How We Connected ; To the Potter, My Former Spouse ; I Never Told My Mother He Hit Me ; The House that Grief Built ; Toward Daylight, Late October: In Transit ; Greek Meat Sauce ; In the Room of My Own ; Sitcom Therapy ; Like I’m Pregnant Again, I Still Feel ; Noncustodial Parent ; Eight Hours Before Dark, 07-04-16 ; Upon Waking from a Dream about My Ex-Husband and His New Girlfriend ; I Am What Iambic --Paths to dwell in : New Leaves, True Leaves ; Maximilian Sunflowers ; Shopping with My Daughter in Her Back Brace ; After the Accident You Saw ; Bubbles ; Puzzle ; Mashed-Up Love ; Scrambled Sleep ; Halfway through the Journey
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M.F.A.