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    Phases
    Phases
    Phases
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    Phases

    By Mischa Willett

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    The poems in Phases are as interested in the creeping penumbral edge of language as they are in the shadowy fact of faith. Playful experiments with form swing to the conceptual ring's apogee, while a colloquy across history and place center the proverbial orbit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCascade Books
    Release dateMar 16, 2017
    ISBN9781532610363
    Phases
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    Mischa Willett

    Mischa Willett teaches English at Seattle Pacific University.

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      Phases - Mischa Willett

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      Phases

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      2017

      Mischa Willett. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers,

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      paperback isbn: 978-1-5326-1035-6

      hardcover isbn: 978-1-5326-1037-0

      ebook isbn: 978-1-5326-1036-3

      Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

      Names: Willett, Mischa

      Title: Phases / Mischa Willett.

      Description: Eugene, OR: Cascade Books

      2017

      | Series: The Poiema Poetry Series.

      Identifiers:

      isbn 978-1-5326-1035-6 (

      paperback

      ) | isbn 978-1-5326-1037-0 (

      hardcover

      ) | isbn 978-1-5326-1036-3 (

      ebook

      )

      Subjects: LCSH: Christian life—Poetry | Fiction / General | Christian life

      Classification:

      PS3623.I45 P43 2017 (

      paperback

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      ebook

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      Manufactured in the U.S.A.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      1 Ocean of Storms

      Pastoral

      When the 26 African Queens Escaped

      I Was Cold and You Lit Me on Fire

      The Help

      On Dante

      The Greek Word for Want

      Artifact

      With Reckless

      Hot Wind

      2 Sea That Has Become Known

      A Medieval Roman Theology, Abridged

      View From the Ponte Vecchio

      Sprezzatura

      A Lie, their Hands

      Mnemesis

      Place Order Here

      3 Land of Heat

      After Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73

      The Leering Man Almost Speaks Up

      Sidereal Characters in Caravaggio Paintings

      How Like Falling In

      Hadrian Complex

      Picture This

      Orpheus Temps at the Furniture Store

      Transubstantiation

      Bird at the Parish of All Souls

      4 Sea of Alexander Von Humboldt

      Infinite

      To his Heart

      5 Land of Frost

      The Cold-Hearted Son Almost Speaks Up

      Getting Across without Charon

      Apostasy

      My Close Friend is a Russian

      Ode to Inspiration

      Visible Spectrum

      To the Inevitable Heartache

      6 Sea of Crisis

      A Kind of Chaos at the Edge of Things

      The Experiment

      Tyrannus

      Device

      This Running Out and That Running Out

      Senza Titolo

      Genius Loci

      7 Land of Manna

      Portrait of the Young Seamstress as an Ars Poetica

      Promotion

      We Are Your New Overlords

      Mnemonic Influence

      The Technological Poem

      8 Island of Winds

      Death Loves Persephone

      Jean-Honore Fragonard’s Swinger Plays Hard to Get

      You Deserve a Better Apology

      An Advent

      The Time I Tried to Write a Letter to a Girl I Hadn’t Seen in Seven Years, but Who I Had Found Beautiful, Even Though We Didn’t Know One Another Very Well and Who I Maybe Would Have Married, Had She Responded Well to the Advance

      The Unmarried Poet Prepares

      9 Lake of Hatred

      The Aura of Inevitability

      How the Bowl Became Still Life with Fruit 1802

      Dear R.S. Gwynn and Thomas Lux

      Let Justice Roll on Like a Mighty River

      Eat Your Own Tail, Royal Taster

      Decadence

      We Have Ways of Making You

      Forgot So Loved

      Notes

      Acknowledgments

      The Poiema Poetry Series

      Poems are windows into worlds; windows into beauty, goodness, and truth; windows into understandings

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