Holiday
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Holiday
Holiday is a book of poems chiseled into both public and private calendar markers, where the unfinished self seeks, desperately and defiantly, resolution through either completion or negation. The poems are filled with unflinching irony and an intelligence that celebrates and laments personal, mythic, biblical, and historical events.
Table of Contents
baggage
The Woman Who Loved Halloween
The Woman Who Hated Thanks, Giving
The Woman Who Was Confused by Christmas
The Woman Who Hated New Year’s Eve
Her Purse, at the Winter Solstice
The Woman Who Hated Valentine’s Day
The Woman Who Became All Ash
The Woman Who Couldn’t Be Good or Right
The Twisted Girl of Mid-April
The Woman Whose Mother Became "The" Moth
Shame
The Woman Who Prayed to Separate Herself from Memory
Evolution
Anthem
Jail Fever
trip
Holiday:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Part VII
Part VIII
Part IX
Part X
surcease
Swan Song of the Sad Woman at the Birth of the Millennium
The Woman Who Loved Halloween
The Woman Who Hated Thanks, Giving
The Woman Who Was Confused by Christmas
The Woman Who Hated New Year’s Eve
Her Purse, at the Winter Solstice
The Woman Who Hated Valentine’s Day
The Woman Who Became All Ash
The Woman Who Couldn’t Be Good or Right
The Twisted Girl of Mid-April
The Woman Whose Mother Became "The" Moth
Shame
The Woman Who Prayed to Separate Herself from Memory
Evolution
Anthem
Jail Fever
trip
Holiday:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Part VII
Part VIII
Part IX
Part X
surcease
Swan Song of the Sad Woman at the Birth of the Millennium