Blessings for the Hands by Matthew Schwartz
A collection of poems, which follow various speakers - often disabled speakers, who never once figure themselves as objects of complaint - through the haunted dreamscape of normalcy.-
Moon Mirrored Indivisible
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Proceed to Check Out
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Mammal Pit
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Inventory
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Little Sound
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The Rope in Bloom
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Mixed Company
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Between the Chains
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Shift
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Waking
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Bat Ode
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Afterworld
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Doubles
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Each in a Place Apart
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Covenant
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The Forest
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Among the Monarchs
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That Kind of Happy
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Come Again?
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The Dreamhouse
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Natal Command
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Otherwise
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Other People's Troubles
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The Chain
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Cairo Traffic
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Classic Rough News
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Res Publica
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Incontinence
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Confession
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The Dead Alive and Busy
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Harriet Rubin's Mother's Wooden Hand
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Love and the Soul
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The Little Field of Self
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Threshold
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The World's Room
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The Neighbor
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Fleet River
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Rib Cage
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Happy Hour
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Another Kind of Travel
The Phoenix Poets list contains a number of poets currently on my list of favoritesThis is a strong, vital series that has given voice to some of the best voices in American poetry today. - Billy Collins Blessings for the Hands is emotionally strong and imaginatively wild, distinctive, deeply moving, without an ort of self-pity, and pervaded by 'compassion down to your fingertips' (which Chekhov said is 'the only method' both to write and to live). This angle of vision is sharp enough to unify much disparate material. The poems are clear and musical and consequently a pleasure to read and reread despite their gravity. I think this may be lasting work. - Michael Ryan
Matthew Schwartz is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. He is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets and the International Institute of Modern Letters.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226740959 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226740951 |
| Title | Blessings for the Hands |
| Author | Matthew Schwartz |
| Series | Phoenix Poets |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2008-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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