Frank sonnets

""The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without," Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss's working-class childhood in rural Michigan to t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Seuss, Diane (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2021]
Subjects:	American poetry > 21st century. Sonnets. Poetry.
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Machine generated contents note: [I drove all the way to Cape Disappointment]
[The problem with sweetness is death]
[Intimacy unhinged, unpaddocked me]
[I met a man a dying man]
[It is abominable, unquenchable by touch]
[Sometimes I can't feel it]
[I could do it. I could walk into the sea]
[Press a foot into this beach]
[The best is when you respond]
[From this bench I like to call my bench]
[Poetry, the only father, landscape]
[Here on this edge]
[To return from Paradise]
[What is it you feel, I asked Kurt]
[Listening to "Summertime"]
[There is a certain state of grace]
["No need to sparkle"]
[My earliest memory]
[Since age three, I went looking]
[Who wants to be soft? I don't]
[I was raised in a rectangle]
[I was not a large child]
[Freak accidents do happen]
[My first crush was Wild Bill Hickok]
[They lived next door, four boys]
[I suck so many cough drops]
[I floated I flew I fell to Earth]
[That bar, World of the Satisfyin' Place]
[Labels now slip off me like clothes]
[All at once David went catatonic]
[I want drugs again; whimsy]
[His body was barely cold]
[The lambs this year are dumb]
[One's got an eye thing]
[When the lamb humped her leg]
[After the pigs and lambs and rabbits]
[The parents tried to build a little Eden]
[The fat suffering of the farrowing sow]
[The patriarch of Jesus Camp is dead]
[It was a land without charm]
[The White Rabbit was before]
[They wander in, two Southdowns]
[He came to us all the way down here with us]
[For a couple years, I slept nights]
[Once, I took a Greyhound north]
[I have slept in many places]
[My first night in New York]
[I'm watching yl Face in the Crowd]
[I can't rest, can't get no relief]
[I should have been in cinema]
[Parties among strangers]
[There's something to be said for having]
[Margaret Sanger did the first one]
[I saw Robert Creeley]
[The famous poets came for us]
[Yes, I saw them all, saw them, met some]
[I can't say I loved punk]
[Thirty-nine years ago is nothing]
[We all have our trauma nadir]
[I aborted two daughters]
[I fell on an incline, talus, tibia]
[There is a force that breaks the body]
[It's that time of spring]
[OD'd on his Suboxone]
[I hoisted them, two drug dealers]
[Freelance artist. That's what you say]
[How do you stand being so virtuous]
[Where is the drug to drug]
[Then, I account it high time to get to sea]
[Which, he asks me, is your favorite story]
[She's a big James Stewart fan]
[Why would God be so mean, he asks]
[Then when I grew up]
[What do you think Elvis's best song was]
[On what day do you think Jesus]
[Maybe we wander]
[I've lived with death from the beginning]
[I fell in love with death]
[I could do the love]
[I've encountered the exoskeleton]
[All lives have their tropes]
[In the dream, my mother called my name]
[I dreamed of it again, my dad's body]
[I dreamed I had to find my way]
[Goldenrod, I could say, you know]
[How will I leave this life, like I left my job]
[I dreamed a color, no plot, a color]
[He called from San Francisco]
[I want to zero in on what he looked like]
[He said it bummed him out his dick]
[I saw a little movie of a person stroking]
[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial]
[Death does not exist in poetry]
[I was tethered to this Earth]
[Abrupt lines on the nature of beauty]
[Literature is dangerous business]
[I wanted to be the boy in the book]
[My literary tastes of late are manic]
[Chekhov sits waiting for me]
[Either all of this is an apparition or I am]
[Mountains black today, hiding]
[For twenty-six days I lived]
[When I am away J miss]
[It's a real Garden of Eden story]
[And then landscape was all there was]
[The emergent self is not a self that loves]
[Takes time to get to minimalism]
[All things now remind me]
[Those days, if I consider them]
[The world today is wet]
[The small stuff, the care]
[I can't see her clearly]
[It won't kill me to be sad again]
[I wish I still smoked]
[The sonnet, like poverty]
[My favorite scent is my own funk]
[You know what living means]
[Marry dull]
[Lately I've been feeling about poetry]
[Ever since Elise brought up]
[My private parts are many]
[Back then its hair was Cleopatraed]
[To say that I'm a witch]
[After forty years]
[For me it's going to be]
[I courted her, that musky tart]
[My tits are bruised]
[I hope when it happens].

Frank sonnets

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