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The Falling Down Dance
Contributor(s): Martin, Chris (Author)
ISBN: 1566894220     ISBN-13: 9781566894227
Publisher: Coffee House Press
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2015
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Family
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2015010592
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.35 lbs) 90 pages
Themes:
- Holiday - Valentine's Day
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

Martin's lines are a brief as breath, and cloister us at home, in winter, where the tiny everyday ministrations of love and parenthood are magnified and abundant with meaning.

I wanted to tell you something
About the shipwreck
Of fatherhood, of motherhood, the coarse
Sugar leaving us
Shook. Soft wreck of the baby
Greeting each kiss
With an open
And drooling mouth, reflex
We don't understand
Heart-blip stuck
Tipping my finger
On the keys, speeding
Memory of yesterday out
The window I'm
Pushing barely open

Chris Martin is the author of American Music (Copper Canyon, 2007) and Becoming Weather (Coffee House Press, 2011).