Caitlin Bailey has published poems in Prairie Schooner, Hayden's Ferry Review, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Hamline University and lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Contents
I.
Whoever Drinks from Me
Lost Letter
Pigeons
Church, Hipbone
This Is the House
Poem about Desire
The Heart Is to a Pleasant Thing
Detonate
Incantare
Poem about Desire
Right Light
The Field That Resists Naming
The Pond
All You Can Do Is Imagine the Leaving
False Narrative
How We Prepared for War
In the Company of a Blue Apparatus
II.
This Is a Life
Definition Of
The Trick Is Small
Hull
Absence Anatomy
Grete Writes to Georg at War
Where We Are Both Well
Nocturne
On Never Marrying Him
Little Pieces
Dream II
Poem about Desire
Some Elaborate
Given the Depth
Somewhere a Key
III.
Spin
Grete Asks the Hard Question
Animus
Keening
Poppies
Men I Could Have Loved
Litany for G
Umwelt
Wild Boat
IV.
Love Lustrum
On the One-Year Anniversary of Your Death
To Coax a Wound
Poem about Desire
Sanatorium
Burden and Roar
Tethered
Paradise
Riot
Unfetter
What Comes After
The Poem about Birds I Can't Write
To G, after the Party
Living Without
