ABOUT THIS BOOK

Complex and focused, this collection of poems moves along the line between waking and sleeping to reveal a narrator who is contemplating her origins as well as her future. Pugh frequently turns in her work to the image of a bed--as a source of comfort, an erotic landing, and a place for dreaming. For Pugh, dreams both obscure and reveal, their language a code to be analyzed, as in her longer meditation inspired by Freud's case history "Dora." After dipping dangerously far into dreams, Pugh's poems return to a world of activity, full of physicality before becoming calm. At the end of the book, the self is restored and can see the world through a newly formed lens taken from its dreams.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Christina Pugh’s previous collections of poetry are Restoration (Northwestern University Press, 2008) and Rotary (Word Press, 2004; winner of the Word Press First Book Prize). Her recent honors include a 2015 Guggenheim fellowship in poetry and a Bogliasco Foundation fellowship in 2016. She is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and consulting editor for Poetry magazine.

REVIEWS

"[A]n elegant, intimate, and melodious 'journey in a circle'... It combines a confessional poet's personality with a language poet's anxiety about the written word, a romantic's insistence on self with a postmodernist's sense of fracture, and an imagist's attention to detail with the metaphorist's imaginative freedom. In this way, Pugh addresses the aesthetic the concerns of her day while also surpassing them."--Jennifer Banks

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Acknowledgments	000
I. Dream Work
Chords at Night	000
Musical		000
Journey in a Circle	000
Stitch	000
Retro	000
Blue Window	000
Reconstruction: An Emblem	000
A Boy, Listening	000
Sebald's Dream Props	000
Loan	000
World's End	000
Bindery	000
Paris, 1950	000
Shard	000
Chamber of Commerce	000
Padeuteria	000
Choose		000
Looking for Mother	000
Drown		000
Twenty-Third		000
Synesthetic	000
My First Name		000	
Parable		000
Two Beds	000
Parable		000
The Dig	000
Embouchure	000
II. Case History
Notes for Dora		000
III. Restoration: The Senses
Cicadas		000
Seeing In	000
The New Retina	000
Inventions	000
	I. Psalm Invention in the West	000
	II. Arc Away		000
	III. Green World	000
Saussure and the Divers	000
The Desk	000
Windy City	000
Pond Way	000	
Free Throw	000
Helve		000
Malibu Lipstick	000
Rue Family	000
Falconer	000
Mercurial (Soap, Glass, Skull)		000
One Thousand Cranes		000	
I Had No Human Fears	000	
Lineage		000
I Shall Not Want	000
Repent		000

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