Everwhen

poems

Anne Barngrover

• Publisher: University of Akron Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781629222462
• Topic: Littérature
• Subtopic: Les femmes dans la poésie

• Dealing with anxiety and fear through the lens of chronic illness
• Living with the co-existence of love and grief
• Book is told from the goddess Ceres' point of view (she's the Roman equivalent of Demeter) as if she lived in the 21st century
• Climate change and nature
• Potential course adoption for poetry and creative writing courses

• People interested in nature, particularly the flora and fauna of Florida
  
  

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• I Begin in Scrolls
• Persona Poem
• Ceres in the Uncreation
• “A Lot of Stuff Happened, and I Quit Being Normal”
• Tennessee is Burning
• Heather Lives in Missouri and I Live in Florida But Our Friend is Very Sick in California and We Want to Light a Candle
• The Crying Bird
• Ceres in the Red Tide
• My Hair Falls Out
• Owls Come to Us
• Why I Couldn’t Write
• Pelvic Ultrasound
• Ceres in the Mass Extinction
• I Always Wanted to Save the Rainforest
• The Dread
• The Prayer Plant Speaks
• Elegy for Fallen Palms
• Aubade with Myself Leaving Myself Behind
• I Serve My God Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
• The Lamp Inside
• Ceres in the Field of Bones
• The Hibiscus Talked to Me
• The Fear
• Flamingo Casino Lobby, Four A.M.
• I Tell My Sister I Learned Space is Like a Donut
• Ceres in the Burning Rainforest
• When I Lie Awake in Pain at Night, I Think about Creation
• The Cats of Imerovigli
• Praise to Our Basement Airbnb
• The Night My Number Tripled
• Ceres in the Global Heat Wave
• So This is What It Means to Be Alone
• The Air Plants
• Künstlerroman
• I Proofread My Friend’s Last Essay
• To the Solstice Moon Over Red Rock Canyon
• The Sea Urchin Spines
• Ceres in the Permafrost Thaw
• If I Misread a Word That Scares Me
• The Doom
• All Your Gods Are Gaslighters
• Princess Mononoke Hits Differently Now
• Ceres in the Cyber Apocalypse
• Before the Formal Feeling – Darkness
• Love When It’s Hard
• Walking with You in the Town Where I Used to Live
• Succulent in Chains
• Ceres in the Environmental Personhood
• The Solar Eclipse Sends Me into a Panic at Eight Years Old and Again at Thirty-One
• The Rainy Season
• Serenade with Siren and Coyotes
• My Poems Keep Ending in Stars
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author