Rise Wildly
Distributed for CavanKerry Press
88 pages
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6 x 9
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
1.
I Wish You Had Known, When You Launched Me
Why I Cried Reading This at Liss and James’ Wedding
Planting, Nearest the Prayer
On a Record James Agee Recites from Memory
His Poems, Auden’s, Shakespeare’s, Etc.
The Brother My Parents Almost Adopted
Vitamin Awe
Adding a New Heartbeat
Getting Through the A’s in Angels: Their Names and Meanings
2.
Watching My Father Watch His Widow
The Fetal Fawn inside the Roadkilled Deer
The 87th Easter
“I’m Having the Death I’d Always Hoped For”
The Hill Looks Steeper, the Two Maples Gone
The Dying-in-Slow-Motion, The Woman Who Taught Me to Knit
What is Metempsychosis?
Help. My Mother is Dead. I Feel Light.
All the Birds Now Silent in the Yard
3.
The Mutual Gratitude of Fountain and Solstice
World Premier, Nocturnal Bird Migration Concert
Epithalamion for Jesus and the Springfield Community Church
Trains Running After Storms
Her Thoughts That October
How You Meet the Year is How You Spend the Year
Map, Lewiston, Idaho, June, 1933
A Dozen Secrets from God
Found, from My Daughter
4.
“Would You Learn Your Lesson if I Made You Take Your Clothes Off?”
“See Something, Say Something”
Notes from a Survey of Home Health Aides
Looking at Saint Francis in the Desert
“Louis Wore His Beeper in His Coffin”
Deserted Trail off the Mountain Loop Highway
Monastery for the Modern Journalist
Watching All the Way Home from a Tough Interview, Seat 28A
5.
Three Endings
Theme and Variations
Please Bring a Moon
On Successfully Becoming Invisible in My Own Home
On the Lackawaxen with Kate, 2008
The Music of Places Going on Without Us
The Menopause Doula
First Weekend Ever Home Alone
To Live: The Imperative
I Wish You Had Known, When You Launched Me
Why I Cried Reading This at Liss and James’ Wedding
Planting, Nearest the Prayer
On a Record James Agee Recites from Memory
His Poems, Auden’s, Shakespeare’s, Etc.
The Brother My Parents Almost Adopted
Vitamin Awe
Adding a New Heartbeat
Getting Through the A’s in Angels: Their Names and Meanings
2.
Watching My Father Watch His Widow
The Fetal Fawn inside the Roadkilled Deer
The 87th Easter
“I’m Having the Death I’d Always Hoped For”
The Hill Looks Steeper, the Two Maples Gone
The Dying-in-Slow-Motion, The Woman Who Taught Me to Knit
What is Metempsychosis?
Help. My Mother is Dead. I Feel Light.
All the Birds Now Silent in the Yard
3.
The Mutual Gratitude of Fountain and Solstice
World Premier, Nocturnal Bird Migration Concert
Epithalamion for Jesus and the Springfield Community Church
Trains Running After Storms
Her Thoughts That October
How You Meet the Year is How You Spend the Year
Map, Lewiston, Idaho, June, 1933
A Dozen Secrets from God
Found, from My Daughter
4.
“Would You Learn Your Lesson if I Made You Take Your Clothes Off?”
“See Something, Say Something”
Notes from a Survey of Home Health Aides
Looking at Saint Francis in the Desert
“Louis Wore His Beeper in His Coffin”
Deserted Trail off the Mountain Loop Highway
Monastery for the Modern Journalist
Watching All the Way Home from a Tough Interview, Seat 28A
5.
Three Endings
Theme and Variations
Please Bring a Moon
On Successfully Becoming Invisible in My Own Home
On the Lackawaxen with Kate, 2008
The Music of Places Going on Without Us
The Menopause Doula
First Weekend Ever Home Alone
To Live: The Imperative
Review Quotes
Eric Hoffer Awards
Category Finalist
Rachel Hadas, author of Love and Dread and Poems for Camilla
“Throughout Rise Wildly, Kelley’s elixir of ‘Vitamin Awe’ (the apt title of one of her poems) imbues dailiness with the magic of attention. Kelley’s deceptively simple questions and instructions bring us to our senses: ‘Count how often each year you let rain fall on your face.’ Rise Wildly is both an extended love poem and a prayer of gratitude for a world that, as Kelley reminds us, is as precarious as it is precious.”
Martha Silano, author of Gravity Assist and Reckless Lovely
“In Rise Wildly, Tina Kelley wows us with her infectious wonder of the earthly and the divine. She is the queen of the cool fact, mistress of the miraculous. We learn that there are ‘100,000 undersea mountains, only a thousand of them named’ and that ‘a baby giggles, on average, 400 times a day.’ With humor and musicality, she invites us to consider that “It didn’t have to be this way. Snowflakes could’ve been dull.” Horrible things happen. There are “dozens of blistering ways to die,” and yet here she is, reassuring us that the statue of Saint Francis will continue “presenting his heart to the light.” These are poems our times demand: reverent, awe-inspiring, and utterly holy.”
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