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Throw Yourself into the Prairie

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A debut of remarkable freshness and delight, Francesca Chabrier investigates love, nostalgia, place, family, and the natural world.
  • 07 January 2014
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"You won't want to stop reading this other-worldly good book."—Dara Wier


11 is 2 bodies and these 2 bodies
want to crash into each other,
but there is no ambulance.
It is a nook of totem poles
on a stubby road and also
2 modest giraffes peering
at something unruly in the grass.

Francesca Chabrier is the author of the chapbook The Axioms (Pilot Books, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Action Yes, jubilat, notnostrums, Sixth Finch, and Sink Review. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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Price: $14.95
Pages: 60
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Imprint: Sarabande Books
Publication Date: 07 January 2014
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781936747658
Format: Paperback
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Francesca Chabrier is the author of the chapbook The Axioms (Pilot Books, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Action Yes, jubilat, notnostrums, Sixth Finch and Sink Review. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and lives in Oregon.
Prologue

Peach Some Laid Their Hands On

Chapter One

The Popular Tree
Cheek Against Soft Pumpkin Fur
The White Machine
A Place for Everything
The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
September

Chapter Two

The End of the Lonesome Era
Coffee Makes People Smart
Instructions on How To
Fall in the Mountains
Bad Night, Good Morning
When I Look Up and See/ I Am Walking

Chapter Three

The Beautiful Poem

Chapter Four

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Gerard
Low
I Will Break the Silence in Holland Appaloosa
4/25, X, X
An Announcement
I Will See You Outside/ A Little Heap
Poem for Pittsburgh

Chapter Five

The Axioms

Chapter Six

This is About
In the Valley on a Hill
Leave of Absence
Countdown to Summer
Things Often Happen Strangely
Pretty Young Thing
Milk Bottle Poem

Chapter Seven

The Blizzard
Lay Fallen