A Manner of Waiting Público

McMullan, Jenna Rhea (2011)

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A Manner of Waiting is a sonnet series comprised of forty poems relating to a wide variety of topics with a focus on food as well as the poetic tradition of female poets.

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1 Gertrude Stein

2 The ark of the ache of it

3 But you burn, and I know it

4 Mina Loy

5 A voice like north wind

6 If you suppose this in August

7 H.D.

8 As one somnambulist to another

9 When they arrive, they are scrambled eggs

10 Marianne Moore

11 Shall I remember later?

12 Lovely weather hurts my forehead

13 I totter to the lip of the cliff

14 Edna St. Vincent Millay

15 The pirate who is restless and pacing

16 So many invisible angels

17 You even taste like the sun

18 Laura Riding Jackson

19 It is possible that things will not get better

20 There are stars we haven't heard

21 This is a holy scripture or a movie

22 Lorine Niedecker

23 Worlds I made I miss

24 To an old spiral, a well of questions

25 I'll fall asleep again down your shoulder

26 Barbara Guest

27 Between the memorable

28 A hollow feeling on Labor Day

29 She was his arms and legs and maybe

30 Lyn Hejinian

31 I carry illusions of becoming

32 No one we know wants it that badly

33 Alice Notley

34 As they are shaking now across my heart

35 Everything sounds funny in a funny magazine

36 Bernadette Mayer

37 A rough outline of a possible moment in life

38 As if you belonged to history or "her story," that mystery

40 Tracing our vagaries on the map

41 And a presumption that once our eyes watered

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