Worrisome Creatures

Poems

Kate Sweeney

• Publisher: Madville Publishing
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781948692830
• Topic: Letteratura
• Subtopic: Poetesse

This is a collection of the body, of the failings of history and family. The range is wide and balanced—in geography, in tenderness and trauma, in startling imagery, craft, and heart. Kate Sweeney's work takes me within and outside myself, making both realms real and seen/felt as if for the first time. In fact, much of the collection feels like entering uncharted territory—and how intriguing to explore it!

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Startle
• Totem
• Ode to My Unfriendly Neighbor
• On the Feast of the Assumption
• Mockingbird
• At the Obstetrician’s Office
• Birthday
• Estuary
• Postpartum
• Meg Francis
• Dreaming of Exes
• Brief Observations of Self, Age 25
• Nerve
• Four O’Clock Makes Me Want to Kill You
• On Hearing an Old Friend Works in the Mass General Burn Unit
• Epithalamium
• All Creatures, Great and Small
• Joselyn, in Trump’s America
• Birthday Poem for My Mother
• Halloween
• The Grief Orchard
• Last Vacation with My Mother
• Why My Grandmother Reminds Me of Sylvia Plath
• Mistaken
• Reverse Death
• Family History
• When I Try to Talk about You
• Escalation
• Before Moving to Florida
• Three Carrotwoods
• Sharks
• Stingray
• The Fiesta Queen, or a Brief History of Florida
• Kafka in the Everglades
• Masquerading
• The Map Room Bar (Bucktown, Chicago)
• To Bartolomé García de Nodal, Captain of the Atocha, September 4, 1622
• The Statue of Christopher Columbus, Tampa Theatre
• The Professor
• Swell
• Ballad of the Bear King, South Alabama
• Advice for a Young Son in April
• For Ryan, in Oregon
• Death of the Hired Hand, Hiawatha, Kansas
• Topeka Boys
• Tongue
• An Education in Steel, Cleveland 1969
• Gas Station Augury, Port Clinton, Ohio
• To Skin a Rabbit
• Natural Selection
• Two-Year Drought
• About the Poet
• Back Cover