WINNER OF THE 2018 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE
An extension of and a departure from previous explorations of family and art, these poems delve boldly into tangled realities of fatherhood, marriage, and poetry. Dealing with the day-to-day of family life—including the alert anxiety and remarkable beauty of caring for a child with cerebral palsy—these personal narratives illuminate the relationship that exists between poetry and a life fiercely lived.Tabella dei contenuti
ONE
Every Turning
Self-Portrait Beside Myself
Free
Night Nurse
Tracheotomy
Video Baby Monitor
Centering
The Hairdryer Chord is All Tangled
Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography
TWO
Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography
Nest
Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography
Apprehension
Where Am I?
In the Waiting Room
THREE
Book Review: The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford
FOUR
Self-Portrait As the Man I’ve Become
Letters to Brenda
Which Is the Best Part of the Day?
Low Note
All Elegies
Tomorrow and Tomorrow Again
Edgemont
Gnostic
Another Poem on my Daughter’s Birthday
Circa l’autore
Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of four books of poems: Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey (BOA, 2021); The Trembling Answers (BOA, 2017), which won the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; To Keep Love Blurry (BOA, 2012); and Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems (CLP, 2007), winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry. He also wrote Cradle Book: Stories and Fables (BOA, 2010) and the chapbook Ambivalence and Other Conundrums (Omnidawn, 2014). His first collection of essays, We Begin in Gladness, was published by Graywolf in November, 2018.
Teicher edited Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz (New Directions, 2016) and serves as a poetry editor for The Literary Review. He writes about books for many publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The LA Times, and NPR. He worked for many years at Publishers Weekly and is now Digital Director of The Paris Review. He is a 2021 recipient of a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and children.