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About This Book
Finalist, 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize
Like nesting dolls, the poems in I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First contain scenes within scenes, inviting the reader over and over again to sharpen focus on minute details that, though small, reveal much about human perception and imagination.
Angie Mazakis handles these layers of revelation with great tenderness. Her poems wander in the way that a curious mind wanders, so that even though they often end very far from where they started, they are anchored in the familiar, referring to experiences we all share: a moment of distraction in a coffee shop imagining a conversation with someone across the room, or a narrative built around the expressions of the cartoon people on the airplane seatback safety guide.
I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First is a testament to the notion that whether through a cosmic or microscopic lens, "You just see one moment; you just see now."
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CONTENTS
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Series Editorās Preface
- Dedication
- Oh My Kidneys
- Love and Containment
- Every Miss Universe Contestant Is from Earth
- Dreamsickness
- Illusions of Self-Motion
- People with No Sight Still See Ghosts
- I Am Looking for You Here
- Thereās No Face for This
- Index of Continuity Errors
- Aircraft Safety Information Pamphlet
- The Woman Who Lives inside My GPS Directs Her Thoughts Inward
- I Miss the Friday Train and Have to Take the Monday Train
- RFI (Request for Information)
- Iāll Never Get to Say
- Excavating the Foundation
- What Was Discovered After the Snow Melted
- Chance
- A Disaster with Angie Telephoneās Name on It
- Call On Janus
- Possibility
- Variable Expressions
- Pretending to Be Asleep
- Owen and Paul
- Where Home Is for Now
- In Paris, the Sun Is a Chandelier
- Red String Theory
- Hoarders Cento
- Benās Face Is Saying Something He Doesnāt Want It to Say
- How to Take a River with You
- Shifts
- Now the Day Is Over
- Red Full Moon
- Acknowledgments
- Notes