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    Neck of the Woods
    Neck of the Woods
    Neck of the Woods
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    Neck of the Woods

    By Amy Woolard

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    The shifting balance of one’s past, present, and future self is at the heart of this collection. Poems contemplate human darkness, femininity, grief, innocence, finding how they coexist and intersect while confronting their origins. Intimacy, memory, and navigating adulthood in the mythos of the South pull together nostalgia and seeks the affirmation of how to move forward after life-altering moments
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlice James Books
    Release dateApr 1, 2020
    ISBN9781948579636
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      Neck of the Woods - Amy Woolard

      NECK OF THE WOODS

      NECK OF THE WOODS

      AMY WOOLARD

      Alice James Books

      Farmington, Maine

      www.alicejamesbooks.org

      © 2020 by Amy Woolard

      All rights reserved

      Printed in the United States

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      Alice James Books are published by Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc., an affiliate of the University of Maine at Farmington.

      Alice James Books

      114 Prescott Street

      Farmington, ME 04938

      www.alicejamesbooks.org

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Woolard, Amy, 1973- author.

      Title: Neck of the woods / Amy Woolard.

      Description: Farmington : Alice James Books, 2020.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019036014 (print) | LCCN 2019036015 (ebook) | ISBN 9781948579070 (paperback) | ISBN 9781948579636 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.

      Classification: LCC PS3623.O7124 (print) | LCC PS3623.O7124 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019036014

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019036015

      Alice James Books gratefully acknowledges support from individual donors, private foundations, the University of Maine at Farmington, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Amazon Literary Partnership.

      Cover art: Lori Nix

      Note to the Reader

      Alice James Books encourages you to calibrate your e-reader device settings using the line of characters below as a guide, which optimizes the line length and character size:

      The distance between my lungs & my house is the difference between yellow & gold.

      Please take the time to adjust the size of the text on your viewer so the line of characters above appears on one line, if possible. Doing this will most accurately reproduce the layout of the text intended by the author. Viewing the title at a higher than optimal text size or on a device too small to accomodate the lines in the text will cause the reading experience to be altered considerably; single lines of some poems may be displayed as multiple lines of text. If this occurs, the line break will be marked with a shallow indent.

      CONTENTS

      THE HOUSEWARMING

      I

      SPOILER

      THE BLONDE PATH

      A PLACE WHERE THERE ISN’T ANY TROUBLE

      LEADING

      GET LOST

      STRAW MAN

      PLACE LIKE HOME

      MISE EN PLACE

      ON THE MOST TERRIFYING CHARACTER IN THE WIZARD OF OZ

      NECK OF THE WOODS

      II

      SPOILER

      AFTER THE WITCH

      THE BLUEPRINT

      EVERYONE ASSUMES THE ANIMALS ALL KNOW EACH OTHER

      HOW TO WALK BACKWARDS INTO A BLACK & WHITE HOUSE

      WHILE AWAY

      GIRL GETS SICK OF ROSE

      ECHOLALIA

      WE’VE BEEN GONE SUCH A LONG TIME & WE FEEL SO MESSY

      WHITE KNUCKLE

      SOMETHING AWFUL

      III

      SPOILER

      FIRST MYSTERY

      AN ENGINE THAT WON’T

      THIRD MYSTERY

      WE DO NOT HAVE ANY OPENINGS AT THIS TIME

      A GIRL KEEPS GETTING OLDER; THE LOOKING GLASS STAYS THE SAME AGE

      SIXTH MYSTERY

      WHAT I TOLD THE COPS

      TRIGGERED, FINGERED

      AFTER THE GIRL

      GODS GONE WILD

      IV

      SPOILER

      AIN’T NO PARTY

      THINGS GO SOUTH

      PERSON FAMILIAR WITH THE SITUATION

      IN GROUND WE TRUST

      WE WILL HAVE WANTED TO HAVE

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      THE GIRL NEXT DOOR TO THE GIRL NEXT DOOR

      WHAT SHE DIDN’T LEAVE

      REVERSE: A FAIRY TALE

      NOTES

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors & staff of the publications in which these poems have appeared:

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