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      WILDER

      WILDER

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       Claire Wahmanholm

      Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry

      Selected by Rick Barot

      MILKWEED EDITIONS

      © 2018, Text by Claire Wahmanholm

      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.

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      Published 2018 by Milkweed Editions

      Printed in Canada

      Cover design by Mary Austin Speaker

      Cover photo by NASA/Goddard/Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

      Author photo by Daniel Lupton

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Wahmanholm, Claire, author.

      Title: Wilder : poems / Claire Wahmanholm.

      Description: First edition. | Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2018.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018027567 (print) | LCCN 2018028516 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571319951 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571315069 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      Classification: LCC PS3623.A35648 (ebook) | LCC PS3623.A35648 A6 2018 (print) | DDC 811/.6--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018027567

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      CONTENTS

       Descent

      *

       [The Ocean Calls]

       Advent

       Afterimage

       Aftersky

       [The Dark Is Everywhere]

       The Meadow, the River

       [We Had a Taste for Error]

       The Meadow, the Lake

       [An Alien General Collected Us]

       Where I Went Afterward

       Breach

       [In a Flash of Light]

       How I Dreamed There

       [The World is Very Distant]

      *

       Red Rover

       B

       [Men Wander among Us]

       Simon Says

       G

       [We Grow Up Frozen]

       The Witch

       D

       Poem after All the Children Have Disappeared

       Afterbodies

       W

       State of Emergency

       [At the End]

      *

       Beginning

       The Jellyfish

       Misery Rift

       Still the Sea

       No Stars

       The Pit

       Relaxation Tape

       The Factory

       Relaxation Tape

       Almanac

       Fuse

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