University of Wisconsin Press, 2022 Paper: 978-0-299-33684-4 Library of Congress Classification PS3622.I49397G57 2022 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
Laura Villareal is a 2019–21 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Fellow, a 2020–21 Stadler Fellow, and the author of the chapbook The Cartography of Sleep. She works on an interview series at F(r)iction called “Writers Talking about Anything but Writing.” Her work has appeared in AGNI, Grist, Black Warrior Review, Waxwing, and elsewhere.
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Winner, John A. Robert Johnson Award for a First Book of Poetry, Texas Institute of Letters
— Texas Institute of Letters
Winner, Award for Poetry, The Writers League of Texas
— The Writers' League of Texas
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Girl’s Guide to Leaving
Trapping Season
The Conditions for Existing as Proposed by X, Y, & Z (What Makes Sense, What’s Safe, What’s Productive)
Before Skipping Town
Sardine Spine
The Long Trajectory of Grief
Afterwards
I Still Check for Monsters Before I Go to Bed
Baby Teeth
Outgrowing a Home
Desert Note
The Astronomer’s Daughter
Crush
Home Is Where the Closet Is
Inside the Foxhole
Inside All the Places I Can’t See
Down By the Water
Slash-and-Burn
If I Invited You to Love Me
Mother // Monster
Thanksgivings
Heart Attack
Curas & Dichos
My Worries Have Worries
Uncertainty with Fish Scales
Solar Eclipse // Myself In Orbit
(My)thology
A Bedtime Story About the Heart
Ending in Contrition or Resignation
When Joy Split Open
Seeds
Boiling Puffins
8 Chickens in a Papier-Mâché Human: A Bedtime Story
Before You Visited
Acknowledgments
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