Murphy, Patricia Colleen, authorUtah State University Press, publisher2016-09-012016-09-012016http://hdl.handle.net/10217/177056Winner of the 2016 Swenson Poetry Award, this collection explores themes of pain and loss as they emerge especially within a dysfunctional family. Includes a foreword by Stephen Dunn, American poet, teacher, and essayist, who was the judge for the 2016 award--provided by publisher.Losing Our Milk Teeth -- Bridges All Over the Room -- My Brother, Hoarding -- How the Body Moves -- Throwing the Proper Tantrums -- XVIIIE Arrondissement -- Immolate -- Cutlass Ciera -- Kitten -- My Armamentarium -- Is It the Sea You Hear in Me? -- Good Morning, Mediocrity -- Meet the Author -- Night Falling, Czechoslovakia -- Edison's Medicine -- Why I Burned Down Namdaemun Gate -- High Hopes, Bad Habits -- Turkish Get-Ups -- Feeding Peeping Tom -- Scrotum and Bone -- The Year of Our Comorbidity -- The Princess of Creeping -- Reading Sexton in Phuket -- Bulb -- Murmur -- The Birth of No -- Midnight at Orca Cannery -- Letter from the Psych Ward, Hospital Kashenko -- My Mittelschmerz -- Arch on a Rung -- This Is Not a Pipe -- Song of a Misanthrope -- Lunatic Years -- Halloween in the Tank -- Incommunicado -- From The Book of Attacks -- Songs in Kiswahili -- Break in the Chain -- Flatline -- How I Learned That Everyone Is Ridiculous -- Where Are You, Gravity? -- Everyone is Eviscerated -- Liminal -- Memory as Diary -- Take the Late Flight -- On Being Orphaned -- After Rumi's Birdwings -- Crave -- What Flickers -- Perennial -- Rank Bitch -- Dad's Last Entrechat -- Crushings -- Bizarre Part -- On Being Born -- Climbing -- Not Having Them -- The Linger Museum -- My Trifecta of Offenses -- With a Whimperborn digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.American poetryTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.