Michigan State University Press, 2018 eISBN: 978-1-62896-345-8 | Paper: 978-1-61186-299-7 Library of Congress Classification PS3601.P64A6 2018 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This collection is made up of poems that explore the evolution of belief, living in the body, daughter-mother and mother-daughter interactions, the celebration and failure of a longterm relationship, and the loss of friends and colleagues. Coming as they do at mid-life, the poems understand, appreciate, and often push back against the weight of both history and expectation.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
LAURA APOL is Associate Professor of Education at Michigan State University. She is the author of several collections of poems including Falling into Grace; Crossing the Ladder of Sun; Requiem, Rwanda; Celestial Bodies; and With a Gift for Burning.
REVIEWS
2018 Independent Publisher Book Award
— 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award
2019 Oklahoma Book Award
— 2019 Oklahoma Book Award
2019 Lansing, Michigan, Poet Laureate
— 2019 Lansing, Michigan, Poet Laureate
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
On Divine Highway
Horoscope
Mid-Life
Writing the Body
The Piano
Briars
Weeding the Garden with John Calvin
Sabbath
And then, the Fall
Genealogy
Colonial History
Mother, Smoking
Suppose
Birthright
Midwinter, My Mother
Easter Sunday
On My Fiftieth Birthday, I Return
Motherline
Of the Body
On Dreams
February 29th
Sending My Son to College
Errant
Afterbirth
A Photo
The Fire
Second Sight
November Rains
Surrender
Daughter Leaving Home
In the Vineyards of Teramo
Blood Moon
Caught
Takotsubo
First Peach after the Truth
Burning the Old Year
Seven Months On
Scattering Ashes at Land’s End
Pardon
To the Lighthouse
The Gift of Yes
Roots
Five Prayers to Be Said upon Departure
Light, Water, Bones
On Divine Highway II
Notes
Acknowledgments
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Michigan State University Press, 2018 eISBN: 978-1-62896-345-8 Paper: 978-1-61186-299-7
This collection is made up of poems that explore the evolution of belief, living in the body, daughter-mother and mother-daughter interactions, the celebration and failure of a longterm relationship, and the loss of friends and colleagues. Coming as they do at mid-life, the poems understand, appreciate, and often push back against the weight of both history and expectation.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
LAURA APOL is Associate Professor of Education at Michigan State University. She is the author of several collections of poems including Falling into Grace; Crossing the Ladder of Sun; Requiem, Rwanda; Celestial Bodies; and With a Gift for Burning.
REVIEWS
2018 Independent Publisher Book Award
— 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award
2019 Oklahoma Book Award
— 2019 Oklahoma Book Award
2019 Lansing, Michigan, Poet Laureate
— 2019 Lansing, Michigan, Poet Laureate
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
On Divine Highway
Horoscope
Mid-Life
Writing the Body
The Piano
Briars
Weeding the Garden with John Calvin
Sabbath
And then, the Fall
Genealogy
Colonial History
Mother, Smoking
Suppose
Birthright
Midwinter, My Mother
Easter Sunday
On My Fiftieth Birthday, I Return
Motherline
Of the Body
On Dreams
February 29th
Sending My Son to College
Errant
Afterbirth
A Photo
The Fire
Second Sight
November Rains
Surrender
Daughter Leaving Home
In the Vineyards of Teramo
Blood Moon
Caught
Takotsubo
First Peach after the Truth
Burning the Old Year
Seven Months On
Scattering Ashes at Land’s End
Pardon
To the Lighthouse
The Gift of Yes
Roots
Five Prayers to Be Said upon Departure
Light, Water, Bones
On Divine Highway II
Notes
Acknowledgments
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