First edition. | Minneapolis, Minnesota: Milkweed Editions,
2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017039309 | ISBN 9781571314925 (pbk.: alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Marriage--Poetry.
Classification: LCC PS3612.E528 A6 2017 | DDC 811/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017039309
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for Susan
Contents
7 The Bath
12 They Will Have to Understand
PART TWO: SHE WHO THINKS LIKE A FISH THINKS
1 Self-Portrait: Newborn Father and Son
2 She Who Thinks Like a Fish Thinks
6 Don’t Leave Albert Einstein with the Kids!
7 Monster at the Breakfast Table
10 Angel at Eighth-Grade Graduation
13 To My Daughter at Fourteen in the Aftermath of the First Full Moon
14 Driving Lesson: To My Son at Sixteen
15 Chores
17 Prayer
18 For a Rescued Daughter, an Artist, Coming Up for Air through Water
20 A Wild Wood
24 Christmas
