Kerri Webster
Wesleyan University Press | Middletown, Connecticut
Wesleyan Poetry
Wesleyan University Press
Middletown CT 06459
© 2018 Kerri Webster
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Designed by Mindy Basinger Hill
Typeset in Sina
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Webster, Kerri, 1971–author.
Title: The trailhead / Kerri Webster.
Description: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2017. | Series: Wesleyan poetry | Includes bibliographical references. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017043088 (print) | LCCN 2017043317 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819578129 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819578112 (cloth : alk. paper)
Classification: LCC PS3623.E3974 (ebook) | LCC PS3623.E3974 A6 2017 (print) | DDC 811/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017043088
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications, in which some of the poems in this volume first appeared:
Anthropoid: “Hulls Gulch,” “Winter Of (And I Took the Chemise Off)”
At Length: “The Night Grove”
Better: “Skins”
BOAAT: “The Spinster Project,” “Of Deborah,” “Wilderness, Poetry, Sex”
Denver Quarterly: “One Eye Dilated”
Grimoire: “On the Nature of Righteous Action,” “Towards an Ethical Religiosity,” “Reasonable Miracles,” “The Trailhead,” “Invert Sky,” “Vanitas”
Guernica: “Corpse Flower”
Los Angeles Review: “This Is Manifest”
Newfound: “Solastalgia,” “Swan/Not Swan”
Poetry: “Hermeneutics”
Gratitude to the Idaho Commission on the Arts for a grant that helped in the writing of this book.
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This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
Front cover illustrations: Deer and Elk Anters © @snehitdesign. Pebbles, [email protected].
CONTENTS
21 Winter Of (And I Took the Chemise Off)
44 Towards an Ethical Religiosity
59 On the Nature of Righteous Action
