Dears, beloveds : poems /: poems. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kevin Phan.
• Authors: Phan, Kevin, 1979-
• Contents: Intro -- Cover -- Contents -- [Outside the snapdragons, cords of light] -- [Floating sheep turn to wonder] -- [I pass through the mental hospital] -- [To witness a selkie, owl-grandmother, grief] -- [For each today, I'll let my soul-force lead] -- [Eternal waves quarrel at the bottom of a wellfull of blueness] -- [Sweet jumping Jesus, bright flocks of rain!] -- [Beneath dark purples, new life jockeyingthrough the cracks] -- [What brought us from the ocean into diamondBuddhafields?] -- [Kombucha & skincare] -- [Here's the church, here's the steeple] -- [I walk past the mental hospital] [Dappled eggs in space. Chickens scratchconstellations into blues] -- [Hello Tuesday, soul-power pancakes] -- [The things we carry-what to do?] -- [Pigs in space, bacon-colored, sprouting wings] -- [Childhood's sweet, rotten gospel] -- [My whole house sweats blood] -- [In the documentary on Aleppo] -- [Grief flowers new dimensions] -- [My neighbor reshingles his roof] -- [What fool denies the inner life of a whale?] -- [Masters from my spiritual tradition became sostill] -- [In last night's dream, I collected my deadmother] -- [At the Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy] [I now intensely cultivate universal love] -- [My heart continues to digest mother's brokengrammar] -- [Into each pore, we ask the world in] -- ["Every word, " wrote Beckett, "is like anunnecessary stain"] -- [Animals & stars were never ours to hold] -- [What would it mean, never to be brought intobeing?] -- [Can we love life enough to anguish at its loss?] -- [Our sky of sudden hail] -- [Our White Helmets tranced by the blast] -- [Our Declaration of Interdependence] -- [In the multiverse, other versions of ourselves] -- [& When I arrived at my mother's deathbed] [Seas & stars were never ours to hold dominionover] -- [Myths, a script of gifts for the living] -- [In every life, a moment or 2, for heaven's sake] -- [Among artists frozen into snowbanks] -- [Yes. Hours brighten into months] -- [Can you hear them?] -- [We travel to our shipping address, like allthings] -- [We who boil in space] -- [So we traveled hand in hand through time] -- [We who open into prayer] -- [Just as time erases kisses from my body] -- [Everything's just 1 insight] -- [What if love is just spondees] -- [We compassion] -- [We command assertions of value] -- [Confession] [Mother, I've built a hospital] -- [Raw honey sun] -- [Said simply] -- [Imagine meditations on meditation] -- [Sprouted splinter fevers] -- [Everything priests promised was eternal] -- [I didn't even get the chance to kiss you goodbye] -- [I didn't even get the chance to kiss you goodbye] -- [Do you believe in magic?] -- ["Suffering is part of the divine idea."] -- [Said simply] -- [I drank the whole alphabet of grief. Then helda blood orange] -- [Brothers, sisters, impossible to say] -- [Dears. Beloveds] -- [Closing waves] -- Notes -- Acknowledgments
• Publisher Details: Fort Collins, Colorado : The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (78 pages)
• Subjects: 811/.6; Grief -- Poetry; Grief; Electronic books; Electronic books; Poetry; Poetry
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781885635761; 1885635761
• Related ISBNs: 9781885635754
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 04, 2020).
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