Her book - Éireann Lorsung

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      Her book

      also by éireann lorsung

       Music for Landing Planes By

      Her book

      poems

      éireann lorsung

      MILKWEED EDITIONS

      © 2013, Text by Éireann Lorsung

      All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher:

      Milkweed Editions, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Suite 300, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415.

      (800) 520-6455

       www.milkweed.org

      Published 2013 by Milkweed Editions

      Cover design by Gretchen Achilles/Wavetrap Design

      Cover art © Kiki Smith and Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc.

      Author photo by Jonathan Vanhaelst

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      FIRST EDITION

      Milkweed Editions, an independent nonprofit publisher, gratefully acknowledges sustaining support from the Bush Foundation; the Patrick and Aimee Butler Foundation; the Dougherty Family Foundation; the Driscoll Foundation; the Jerome Foundation; the Lindquist & Vennum Foundation; the McKnight Foundation; the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Target Foundation; and other generous contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals. For a full listing of Milkweed Editions supporters, please visit www.milkweed.org.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

       Lorsung, Éireann, 1980-

       [Poems. Selections]

       Her book : poems / Éireann Lorsung.—First edition.

       pages cm

       ISBN 978-1-57131-879-4

       I. Title.

       PS3612.O77H47 2013 2012042168

       811›.6—dc23

      Milkweed Editions is committed to ecological stewardship. We strive to align our book production practices with this principle, and to reduce the impact of our operations in the environment. We are a member of the Green Press Initiative, a nonprofit coalition of publishers, manufacturers, and authors working to protect the world’s endangered forests and conserve natural resources. Her book was printed on acid-free 30% postconsumer-waste paper by Versa Press, Inc.

       for Z.C.L.C., S.Y. & L.D.

      Contents

       Dowry cloth

       Honey brain

       The cells—the moon

       Familiars

       Stars and scat

       Blue blanket

       2. Girllife

       First principles

       Historical fragment

       Pink

       A collection of beauties at the height of their popularity

       And so the last day came, and the last hour of the last day

       Bee summer

       City pleasure

       England, or the continent I had in mind when I came here

       Sweets

       Live bees

       The birdwoman at Grasmere

       Smooth stone, fox

       How it all began

       Historical fragment

       The birdwoman in the cathedral

       International postage coupon

       Bird construction

       Honey

       3. Reconstruction

       Autoportrait tree

       Post

       Think on the lilies of the field

       Listening to other people’s praying

       Creation tune

       Sewing together

       Quilt with birds

       Eating the archive

       Single-page drawing

       Transubstantiation

      Her book

       1.

       Fifteen poems for Kiki Smith

       after Kiki Smith

      From inside all this hair I can see you.

      The body on the ground,

      on its own, is resurrection. Female,

      that’s a question of creation.

      Some days hair is miles of messages

      meant for pre-Morse receivers,

      bare scratching of another’s hand

      on vellum that looks like skin.

      The body inside

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