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In an exquisite and powerful first collection of poetry Carol Guess blends musical language with social commentary. Her poems focus on the lives of women struggling to put words to the unspeakable. Watercolor: Leda The swan nestles his beak between the womans smallish breasts. His wings curve like orchards, or the broad flaps of planes that seared acres of sky in the early months of the last noticeable war. Returning from the front, a man lays his head between his lovers breasts, listening for the heart nestled among orchards of skin and bone. He lets scars drift from him like petals. He pretends he can forget acres of names . The most noticeable thing in the picture is the quiet of the womans lips as the bird comes to her, and she pretends she will forget warm breath to breast, beast-touch. But everything returns to haunt, like obscene pictures, like the heart of the swan, beating a rhythm out beneath winged ribs. The murmur of push or drop through the birds heart flaps, the murmur of beautiful, dead men in their last flights returns and it is like the return of the planes at night, when someones war has just begun to drop. The soldier lets his thoughts nestle among the rhythms of

Author

Guess, Carol , 1968-

Publisher

Corvallis, Or.: Calyx Books ; St. Paul, MN: Distributed to the trade through Consortium Book Sales and Distribution

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780934971867

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24