Rick Barot was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has published three previous volumes of poetry: The Darker Fall; Want; which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 GrubStreet Book Prize; and Chord. Chord received the UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. It was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, the New Republic, Tin House, the Kenyon Review, and the New Yorker. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and Stanford University. He is the poetry editor for the New England Review. He lives in Tacoma, Washington, and directs The Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University.
CONTENTS
The Grasshopper and the Cricket
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The Flea
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Still Life with Helicopters
The Girl Carrying a Ladder
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The Blink Reflex
Virginia Woolf's Walking Stick
Dragged Mass
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Cascades 501
The Marrow
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The Names
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Adjacent, Against, Upon
Marimar
Wright Park
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On Some Items in the Painting by Velázquez
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Broken Mirror Against Tree Trunk
A Poem as Long as California
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Ode with Interruptions
Acknowledgments
