© 2015 by Kathleen Ossip
FIRST EDITION
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ossip, Kathleen.
[Poems. Selections]
The Do-over : poems / Kathleen Ossip. -- First edition.
pages ; cm
ISBN 978-1-936747-96-2 (pbk. : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-936747-98-6 (ebook)
I. Title.
PS3615.S6A6 2015
811’.6--dc23
2014010250
Cover by Kristen Radtke.
Interior by Kirkby Gann Tittle.
EBook ISBN 978-1-936747-98-6.
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
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| This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
Contents
4 Ode
6 The Road Trip and the Apron String
7 Lyric
2 How can we know the journey from the path?
3 On Political Crisis
4 The Great Man is dead,
5 It’s hard to keep identities
6 Veterans Day
7 Amy Winehouse
8 Steve Jobs
9 Troy Davis
10 Lucian Freud,
11 Donna Summer
12 Three True Stories
13 The Millipede
3
1 A. in January
2 What is A.
3 What is Death
4 Sonnet for A.
5 Libraries & Museums
4
1 “No use”
2 Three Short Lyrics
3 After
5
1 On Sadness
2 The Do-Over
3 A. in September
4 Words for a Newborn
5 The Arrival of Spring
6 Funeral of My Character
7 One Short Lyric
8 Oh, wow, mausoleums,
Borrowings
Acknowledgments
Thank
