House of Sugar, House of Stone (Mountain West Poetry Series)

Synopsis

[part] I. Lullaby -- Under The Roof -- Each Day I Open The Door To Damage -- Directions -- A New Mother Discovers Emptiness -- Self Portrait As A Dam -- The Flood -- Mother Love -- The Meow's The Thing- -- Further Thoughts On Responsibility -- Nose Tip, -- Wheat Field With Crows -- Tide Pools; Dear Daughter, -- Sweet Seed, Sweet Poison -- To The Artist's Child -- Pre-term -- Child's Story -- -- Because We Left The City -- Units Of Measure -- Aubade -- Abandon -- Proposal -- The Birth Of Doubt -- Advice To My Younger Self -- Fall -- Raveling Round The Lake -- Dust Storm -- We Cannot Sleep Alone -- Verge -- Child, -- Epithalamium On A Theory Of Gravitythe Barnyard Of It -- Creator, I Try -- Advice To My Younger Self: Winter -- Dear Creation, I Confess, [part] Ii. Further Thoughts On Abandon -- Two = Part Invention -- Perfect Wife -- Processional -- How I Learned To Love -- Offering -- Crossroads -- We Wanted More -- Later; Sometimes, Silence -- In Which I First Discovered -- Encounter -- Spider Season -- Master; Wanting Not Wanting -- Presage -- Husband, -- On A Photograph -- Carrying On -- It Did Not Happen As You'd Hoped -- Unsettling -- Lullaby -- Hungry -- Little Song -- Clutch -- Before And After -- Afterlife -- Hush -- Revision -- Ambition -- Preface -- Never Have -- Coda. Emily Pérez. These Poems Are Suggested By Themes And Characters Found In Grimm's Fairy Tales.