Jillian Weise

The Book of Goodbyes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the James Laughlin Award writes of sex, identity, and the power struggles within a deranged love affair.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA Editions
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781938160141
• ISBN-10: 1938160142
• Artikelnr.: 38060149

Autorenporträt

Jillian Weise publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She is the author of The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, The Colony, and The Book of Goodbyes, winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times and Tin House. Weise has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Fulbright Program, the Sewanee Writers Conference and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 4
One 5
Up Late and Likewise 6
The Ugly Law 7
Decent Recipe for Tilapia 11
I¿ve Been Waiting All Night 12
Café Loop 13
How to Treat Flowers 16
Affairs 19
His Girlfriend Stops By 20
Intermission 21
Tiny and Courageous Finches 22
Go On High Ship 31
Marcel Addresses Kate 36
Two 39
Why I No Longer Skype 40
Portrait of Big Logos 42
Once I thought I was going to die . . . 43
All the Littles in Exodus 47
Semi Semi Dash 48
Poem for His Ex-Girlfriend 49
Goodbyes 52
For Big Logos, In Hopes He Will Write Poems Again 54
Be Not Far From Me 57
Curtain Call 61
Elegy for Zahra Baker 62
Notes 68