Fleury, Amy, 1970-

Sympathetic magic poems / by Amy Fleury. - Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (pages) - Crab Orchard series in poetry .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; I.; Sympathetic Magic; Elk Skeleton; First Morel; The Fort; Penmanship; Bicentennial Year; Assumptions; Farm Auction; II.; At the Geographic Center; A Brief History of Barbed Wire; Here in Topeka; Verdure; Home Altar; Vocabulary of Ashes; At Thirty-Five; Two Solitudes; III.; Sister Anonymous; Niches; Specimens; Galileo's Finger; The Head of St. Catherine; Ex Voto; See You in the Funny Papers; In a Foreign City; IV.; Magnetic Resonance; Hospital Time; Vigil; Arising; Ablution; Grand Mal; V.; Green Temple; Sky Judge; In Acadiana Hurricane IkePacheco Burn; When at Last I Join; Spiritus Mundi; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover

Amy Fleury's bewitching new collection of poems, Sympathetic Magic, unveils the everyday manifestations of sympathy as well as the connections wrought by "sympathetic magic"-that indelible tether that binds people, places, and objects across time and distance. Fleury's lyrics journey across the landscapes of childhood and old age, body and spirit, past and future, exploring the boundless permutations of sympathy as it appears in the most surprising locations. Connections reveal themselves in the aggressive silence of the small town or the round penmanship of a



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American poetry.


Electronic Books.

PS3606 / .S967 2013