How to Dress a Fish - Abigail Chabitnoy

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      HOW TO DRESS A FISH

      WESLEYAN POETRY SERIES

      HOW

      Abigail Chabitnoy

TO

      DRESS

      A

      FISH

       Wesleyan University Press | Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2019 Abigail Kerstetter

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Designed by Mindy Basinger Hill

      Typeset in Garamond Premier Pro

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      available upon request

      Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8195-7848-8

      Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8195-7849-5

      Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8195-7850-1

      5 4 3 2 1

      Front cover illustration: Rick Bartow, Salmon for Jim M., 2006, monotype, 30 × 22”. Courtesy of the Richard E. Bartow Estate and Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR. Photo: Rebekah Johnson Photography.

      FOR MICHAEL, ADRIAN, AND NIKIFOR

      CONTENTS

       Family Ghosts 1

       I

       Fox Hunting 5

       Family History 7

       Family Ghosts History 8

       [grocery list, July 26, 2015] 9

       Shebutnoy 12

       Distance of Articulation 14

       [Grandfather, fig. 1] 17

       [Boy, bear, bird?] 18

       [(fish)] 19

       [Observe the Indian as subject] 21

       [(never so much fish)] 22

       [The earth was hollow around my feet.] 23

       Elocution Lessons 24

       [( )] 28

       [Grandfather, fig. 2] 29

       [fig. 3] 30

       [fig.] 31

       [(shark)] 32

       [Not even bone.] 33

       Lessons in Articulation 34

       [Grandfather, fig. 5] 35

       [Line. November. post-fall month.] 36

       Dream with Shark 39

       Survey of Resource Articulation 40

       [It was winter] 42

       II

       [Only the beginning is true] 45

       [… the bodies were too soft.] 46

       Early She Works with Bodies 47

       [(conditionally)] 49

       [Pyrrha did not turn back] 50

       She Gets Her Power from the Water 51

       [every able body] 53

       [In a box] 54

       Ways to Sustain 55

       [some burning persists] 56

       [I turned fish] 58

       Dream with Shark 59

       [In a pile of available bodies] 60

       [The dream is only trees] 61

       [she fell down dead] 62

       Let’s begin again 63

       [fig. with ghosts] 65

       [(That’s not how) the one from the water survived.] 66

       Qawanguq with Fox 67

       [No one expected a flood] 68

       [… the smell of fish baking] 69

       [The water rose.] 70

       Qawanguq with House 71

       III

       History Lesson 75

       Collection Object 77

       Before There Was a Train 91

       [She coughed and the women came out] 92

       Family History 94

       Family story 96

       m y story 98

       or 100

       [not a fish] 102

       [I was only a girl] 103

       As Far as Records Go 104

       Articulation of Distance; Or, The Hero Is Daily Called to Mind 107

       In Communion with the Non-Breathing 108

       [shallow bodies] 109

      

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