Lying in - Metzger, Elizabeth

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Résumé :
A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief--

Biographie:
Elizabeth Metzger is the author of Lying In, as well as and The Spirit Papers, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook Bed. Her poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Nation, and Poem-a-Day. Her essays have been published in Boston Review, Guernica, Conjunctions, PN Review, and Literary Hub, among others. She is a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and she lives in California.

Sommaire:

1

Lying In . 3
Won Exit . 9
First Wound Kept Open . 10
We Are Often in Danger of Departing . 12
You’ve Been on Earth So Long Already . 13
Exaggerated Honey . 15
Picture of the Floating World . 17
Patient Mentality . 19
Not My Child . 20
The Witching Hour . 22
Moses, New York . 25

2

Welcome . 29
The Whole Way . 30
With Wayward Motion . 31
Early Rising . 34
Last of Kin . 36
First Anniversary . 37
Ultrasound . 39
A Birth Interrupted On and Off by the World . 40
Guest House . 41
For My Mother Wanting Children . 42
Inmate of Happiness . 43
Mid-Supper . 45

Godface . 49
The Impossibility of Crows . 50
Wrong Distance . 52
The End That Followed . 54
Mercy Later . 56
Verisimilitude . 57
Almost One . 58
So I Finally Slept . 59
The Flat Chapel . 61
One More Day . 62
Every Child Alone . 64

4

As Long As They Want . 69
The God Incentive . 70
Sex Dream . 71
Marriage . 72
Roach . 73
On a Clear Night . 75
Mother Nothing . 76
Daughter as Myself . 79
What Are the Chances . 80
Desire . 82

Notes . 83
Acknowledgments . 85