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78 pages.
Contents: Time. [to begin] -- This time around -- On metaphysical insight -- Evenflow -- On looking at photographs in high school yearbooks -- Y2K -- Office at night -- Pastoral -- The semiotician in the dark -- Desire. Western motel -- Blindsided -- Wood tiger meets fire dog -- Democratic moves -- The soft body of desire creeps like a bug over you -- Imogen -- By Sunday -- After Mallarmé -- The facts -- Absence. Mr Anne Carson -- Happy birthday NJ -- Deep excavation -- The bowmen -- Image and influence: your me-ness is I-with -- Now here -- Memoria verborum -- Rebound -- Funeral playlist -- A day, January -- King of the wood -- 'Light and things' -- Roast lamb for Christmas dinner, for example -- Eleven a.m.
Summary: Guided by the work of Anna Carson, these poems trace the end of a marriage, a toxic love affair, age and aging, and the deeper question of spiritual meaning. Running throughout is Therese Lloyd's quest to prove that art is essential to life. (Back cover)