Song of the Husbands for Henry All winter the kind husbands hover
like mortgaged angels. One smells gasoline in his sleep, would be
my lover. They want me to be well. Specimen, they say, and mean
endearment. I row into the flood. The vodka turns the lemon to
crystal, the carp turn the pond to shit and hunger, the lingerie
turns the trunkful of lingerie into a special trunk. And the
husbands, the husbands If asked they will install a water feature.
I tend my minor art, I push my sorrow cart, the women sing to the
women o'er the prison walls: Daughters of Elysium!: as I elysium
myself to sleep and, waking, wear a poppy cast from silver around
my neck. I grow ashamed of my teeth, I pawn, redeem, pawn, redeem,
shoo deer from the poison hedge. Oh leanmost season. Speak,
husbands; speak, cocked honeys; speak! "I'm learning to allow for
visions," the primary speaker of The Trailhead announces, setting
out through a landscape populated by swan-killers, war torturers,
and kings. Much of the book takes place in the contemporary
American West, and these poems reckon with the violence inherent in
that place. A "conversion narrative" of sorts, the book examines
the self as a "burned-over district," individual and cultural pain
as a crucible in which the book's sibyls and spinsters are remade,
transfigured. "Sacralization/is when things become holy, also/when
vertebrae fuse," the book tells us, pulling at the tensions between
secular and sacred embodiment, exposing the essential difficulty of
being a speaking woman. The collection arrives at a taut, gendered
calling - a firm faith in the power and worth of the female voice -
and a broader faith in poetry not as a vehicle of atonement or
expiation, but as bulwark against our frailties and failings.
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