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Every Ravening Thing: Poems

by Marsha de la O

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019
Paper: 978-0-8229-6575-6 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-8668-3
Library of Congress Classification PS3604.E12265E94 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

"Every Ravening Thing is the most exciting book I’ve read in a very long time." —Chase Twichell

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Marsha de la O is the author of Antidote for Night, winner of the 2015 Isabella Gardner Award, and Black Hope, winner of the New Issues Press Poetry Prize and winner of an Editor’s Choice, Small Press Book Award. Other awards include the Morton Marcus Poetry Award and the da Poetry Award. She has published extensively, including recent poems in The New Yorker and the Kenyon Review, with work forthcoming in Prairie Schooner. De La O lives in Ventura, California, with her husband, poet and editor Phil Taggart. Together, they produce poetry readings and events in Ventura County and edit the literary journal Spillway.

REVIEWS

“Every Ravening Thing is the most exciting book I’ve read in a very long time. At its heart is a profound empathy for human suffering of all kinds, but the poems offer neither solace nor cure. Each feels like a brave experiment that extracts a question from the world then answers it. In almost every poem I feel an unanticipated shock of recognition, which happens only when profundity, clarity, and a fierce allegiance to truth combine in one intelligence. Tough, searing, and dangerous, these are among the rare necessary poems of our age.” —Chase Twichell

"Every Ravening Thing presents a matchless intensity and intellectual grit, a fearless investigation into the world amplified by a vision that is both cosmic and detailed in our common suffering. This is a brave book of poetry.” —Christopher Buckley

“What is ferocious – ravenous – here is the poet’s driven need to tell things as they truly are, which means it’s not always a pretty picture that she so carefully assembles for the reader. And I love the raucous regard she has for diction: reckless and powerfully inventive and fresh the way air can be fresh. All of this is held together by a commitment to the music that drives these poems in a way that soothes the ear. Every Ravening Thing could serve as a warning to all of us about our failures as men and women, and as a celebration of the good we’re capable of doing and in that way is a necessary part of our reading.” —Bruce Weigl

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Interrogation

Poem of the first kiss

Keats at Fourteen

Darkfall

No, She Didn’t Think the Road Was Dangerous

To Stand in a Circle

Two for a Penny

Gray Fox

Lament

Poem beginning in loneliness

My Vulture, My Companion

For the Poet Enheduanna of Uruk

La Vida

For a Young Woman Dead at Twenty

Vinegar of Roses

In the middle of the story

Ode to Apples

Speaking to my Father on War

Night Traveling

I Still Say Your Name

Running Fire

The Work of Their Hands

Ode to the Verb To Be

Self Portrait as Daphne

The Good Neighbor

In Those Months Gold Leaf Drifted onto His Skin

The Understory

Poem for the parched

Summer

A Natural History of Light

To Get This Far

Star Pine

The Essence of Water

Rio Grande

Bone Box

Mad Meg

Northern Lights and Sound

Mapping Hallucinations

Space-time Tsunami

The Country That Doesn’t Exist

Poem on a female goldfinch

A Grove of Trees

Rough Innocence

Portion

To the Grandmothers

Acknowledgments

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