Cold Pastoral. Rebecca Dunham

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      ©2017, Text by Rebecca Dunham

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      Published 2017 by Milkweed Editions

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      Cover design by Gretchen Achilles

      Cover photo by Carrie Vonderhaar / Ocean Futures Society / National Geographic Creative

      Author photo by Amanda Crim / Second Nature Photography

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Dunham, Rebecca, 1973- author.

      Title: Cold pastoral : poems / Rebecca Dunham.

      Description: Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions, 2017.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016029440 (print) | LCCN 2016037781 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571314789 (softcover) | ISBN 9781571319395 (e-book)

      Subjects: | BISAC: POETRY / American / General.

      Classification: LCC PS3604.U54 A6 2017 (print) | LCC PS3604.U54 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016029440

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       CONTENTS

        Title Page

        Copyright

      1  Mnemosyne to the Poet

      1  Elegy, Wind-Whipped

      2  Atavism at Twilight

      3  Black Horizon

      4  In Which She Opens the Box

      5  Elegy, Sung in Dirt

      6  Mud

      7  Field Note, 2011

      8  Et in Arcadia Ego

      9  Suburban Elegy

      10  Field Note, 2011

      11  Initial Exploration Report: Macondo Well

      12  Blowout

      13  To Walk on Air

      14  Elegy for the Eleven

      15  Daybreak

      16  There Lies the Hydra

      17  To Narcissus

      18  Backyard Pastoral

      19  In Which She Considers the Water

      20  Elegy, a Catalogue

      21  Field Note, 2011

      22  Elegy Written in Oil

      1  A Hive of Boxes

        Acknowledgments

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