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    Marabou
    Marabou
    Marabou
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    Marabou

    By Jane Yeh

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    A meditation on the nature of artifice and on the self, this collection of beautifully crafted poems addresses themes of love, lust, glamour, and desperation with wit and flair. Featuring a broad cast of characters, from Harry Potter's owl to Oscar Wilde, these poems combine vivid detail and bold confessions to reach unexpected emotional truths.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateOct 1, 2012
    ISBN9781847776310
    Marabou
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    Jane Yeh

    Jane Yeh was born in America and has lived in London since 2002. She holds degrees in English and Creative Writing from Harvard, Iowa, Manchester Metropolitan, and Royal Holloway London universities. Her first collection of poems, Marabou (Carcanet, 2005), was shortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward, and Aldeburgh poetry prizes. She was named a Next Generation poet by the Poetry Book Society for her second collection, The Ninjas (Carcanet, 2012). A Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Open University, she also writes on books, theatre, and fashion for such publications as The Poetry Review and The Village Voice.

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      Marabou - Jane Yeh

      JANE YEH

      Marabou

      Acknowledgements

      Grateful thanks to the editors of the publications in which some of these poems first appeared: Antioch Review; Boston Review; Grolier Poetry Prize Annual; LIT; Metre; New Poetries III (Carcanet, 2002); New Voices: University and College Prizes, 1989-1998 (The Academy of American Poets, 2002); PN Review; Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (Bedford/St Martin’s, 2002); Poetry (Chicago); Poetry Review; Quarterly West; The Times Literary Supplement; TriQuarterly.

      The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the New York Foundation for the Arts and its grant of an Artist Fellowship.

      Contents

      Title Page

      Acknowledgements

      I

      Correspondence

      Double Wedding, 1615

      The Pre-Raphælites

      Adultery

      Convent at Haarlem

      Cumbria

      The Only Confirmed Cast Member Is Ook the Owl, Who Has Been Tapped To Play the Snowy White Owl Who Delivers Mail for Harry

      II

      Bad Quarto

      Telegraphic

      Monster

      Paris, 1899

      Teen Spies

      Biological

      Blue China

      Love in a Cold Climate I

      Love in a Cold Climate II

      Divining

      France, 1919

      Substitution

      Defence

      Portrait at Windsor

      Seaside Resorts

      Parliament of Fowls

      House

      Fête Champêtre

      Vesuvius (In the Priests’ Quarters)

      III

      Shoemaker’s Holiday

      Revenger’s Tragedy

      Rhode Island Waltz

      Alchemy

      Exercises

      Self-Portrait After Vermeer

      Notes

      About the Author

      Copyright

      I

      Correspondence

      I’ve gotten nothing for weeks. You might think of me

      As dated in a blue housecoat, buttoning and unbuttoning,

      Waiting you out: I have my ways

      Of keeping time. When your letter comes, dogs will bark

      Up and down the street. The tomatoes in the garden

      Will explode like fireworks. Each day the mailman passes

      In a reverie, illiterate, another cobweb

      Grows across the door. Picture me

      Going bald one hair at a time, combing and curling, burning

      My hand on the iron once every hour: I like to

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