Jennifer Perrine is an associate professor of English and directs the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Drake University. Perrine is the author of In the Human Zoo, recipient of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, and The Body Is No Machine, winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry.
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Acknowledgments
I.
Invocation: [Saint] Genevieve
The Mother, the Girl, the Mirror That Speaks
To Chant Back the Summer
Humility | Pride
For the Lone Man at the Violence Prevention Center
Embarrassment: from baraço (halter)
Envy | Kindness
After My Mother's Death, I Feel Nothing
II.
Invocation: [Saint] Euphrosyne
A Theory of Violence
The Divorcée's Fable
Song of the Bystander
Piblokto
A Theory of Violence
'Tis of Thee
Greed | Charity
Mobility
Patience | Wrath
A Theory of Violence
III.
Invocation: The Blessed Girl, after Her Visions and Vows
Self-Portrait as Francis Bacon
Letter to Half a Lifetime Ago
Love Song with Condemned Building
Lust
Call Me
Lust | Chastity
Yoke
Wild Child (Slight Return)
I Would Rather Die a Thousand Deaths
Ode to the Motorcycle
Dead Letter
IV.
Invocation: [Saint] Pharaïldis
Pastoral for Our Uncharted Territories
Fishwife
Temperance | Gluttony
The Mystic Speaks of Attachment
Confidence Game
Wow and Flutter
Diligence | Sloth
Elegy for My Morbid Curiosity
Happiness: from hap (fortune, luck)
Coronal
Seconds
