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Winner of the 2013 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Best Bones\u0026lt;/i\u0026gt; is a house. When you walk around the rooms of the house, you overhear the desires and griefs of a family, as well as the unresolved concerns of lingering ghosts. The various voices in the house struggle against the family roles and social identities that they must wear like heavy garments\u0026#8212;mother, father, wife, husband, sister, brother, servant, and master. All these voices crave unification; they want to join themselves into one whole sentient being, into \u0026quot;a mansion steering itself.\u0026quot; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;The poems in \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Best Bones\u0026lt;/i\u0026gt; also explore the experience of living in a physical body, and how the natural world intersects with manmade landscapes and technologies. In it, mother has a reset button, servants blend into the furniture, and a doctor patiently oversees the pregnancy of the earth. \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;In these poems, the body is a working machine, a repository of childhood myth and archetype, and a window to the spiritual world. The poems strive to be visceral on the level of dream, or of a story that is half remembered and half fabricated. |
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