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In Easy Does It, Jennifer Moore's second full-length collection, the speaker brings the reader on an exploration of multiple worlds: the social, the domestic, and the pastoral, considering the difficult questions and problems of the self-of memory, history, grief, and desire. The poems move from buzzing, bewildering environments where "hide and seek becomes Save yourself" and "nothing ever / does it easy" in pursuit of clarity, beauty, and stillness. With colloquial humor and curiosity, the speaker investigates her subjects in tones that range from the wry to the resigned to the powerful. Through linguistic echo and metaphorical transformation, the familiar is made strange and the strange feels like home.

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Publié par	University of Akron Press
Date de parution	21 mars 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781629222134
Langue	English

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EASY DOES IT
AKRON SERIES IN POETRY
AKRON SERIES IN POETRY
Mary Biddinger, Editor

Jennifer Moore, Easy Does It Heather Green, No Other Rome Sean Shearer, Red Lemons Annah Browning, Witch Doctrine Emily Corwin, Sensorium Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, A Brief History of Fruit Joshua Harmon, The Soft Path Oliver de la Paz, The Boy in the Labyrinth Krystal Languell, Quite Apart Brittany Cavallaro, Unhistorical Tyler Mills, Hawk Parable Caryl Pagel, Twice Told Emily Rosko, Weather Inventions Emilia Phillips, Empty Clip Anne Barngrover , Brazen Creature Matthew Guenette, Vasectomania Sandra Simonds, Further Problems with Pleasure Leslie Harrison, The Book of Endings Emilia Phillips, Groundspeed Philip Metres, Pictures at an Exhibition: A Petersburg Album Jennifer Moore, The Veronica Maneuver Brittany Cavallaro, Girl-King Oliver de la Paz, Post Subject: A Fable John Repp, Fat Jersey Blues Emilia Phillips, Signaletics Seth Abramson, Thievery Steve Kistulentz, Little Black Daydream Jason Bredle, Carnival Emily Rosko, Prop Rockery Alison Pelegrin, Hurricane Party Titles published since 2012. For a complete listing of titles published in the series, go to www.uakron.edu/uapress/poetry .
EASY DOES IT
JENNIFER MOORE
Copyright © 2021 by The University of Akron Press All rights reserved • First Edition 2021 • Manufactured in the United States of America. All inquiries and permission requests should be addressed to the publisher, The University of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio 44325-1703.
ISBN : 978-1-62922-207-3 (paper) ISBN : 978-1-62922-212-7 (ePDF) ISBN : 978-1-62922-213-4 (ePub)
A catalog record for this title is available from the Library of Congress.
∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper).
Cover image: The Long Study of the Sea by Matthias Jung ( www.zabadu.de ) Cover design by Amy Freels.
Easy Does It was designed and typeset in Minion with Futura titles by Amy Freels and printed on sixty-pound natural and bound by Bookmasters of Ashland, Ohio.

Produced in conjunction with the University of Akron Affordable Learning Initiative. More information is available at www.uakron.edu/affordablelearning/ .
CONTENTS
Grand Opening
Of What’s Difficult
I Have No Way with Words
By Definition
Fool Me Twice
The Photo Shoot
Field Report
Rat Race
Easy Does It
Brood Parasite
The Mirage Is a Hotel for Seeing
The Fog
After the Fact
Domestic Noir
Gramophone
Door
Skeleton Clock
Thief
Daylight Saving
Field Report
January, Huddled
Masquerade
Coloratura
Bewilderment
Domestic Noir
Summer, Later
That Our Desire Is Increased by Difficulty
Speak of the Meadow
Wisteria
The Calm Eye Passes Over
Aerial
Little Epic
Sea Thistle
After We Felled the Noble Fir
What Remains
Ghost’s Ghost
Sundown, Sky
Poem with Cloud and Tangerine
Fantasy Is a Place Where It Rains
Use Cabbage to Heal the Bruise
Laurel
Once You Leave the Forest
If Night Is a House
Recipe for Rain
Diorama
She Seemed to Arrive Slowly
House of Rain
Field Report
Fog Forest
I Hope the Owl Remembers Me
Cradle
Row
Notes
Acknowledgments
For Mom
Let us consider through what clouds and how gropingly we are led to the knowledge of most of the things that are right in our hands.
—Montaigne
O
GRAND OPENING
And now the guests are arriving,
two by two by two. Somebody mists the lilies.
Every marble column’s veined in grey.
I was cordially invited to attend this event;
I play it very cool. I stroke my invisible beard
and strike up a conversation with a sculpture.
I like drinks. I like corners.
Of course I care about art!
In my heart, I’m pawing at the air.
I try to describe what I’m seeing.
I try to think about colors,
about what catches my eye
and why. To be honest,
it’s the hundreds of napkins
folded into swans, swimming on each table.
The newest museum piece is flanked
by impressionist paintings; the crowd jostles in.
They snap a shot, grab a drink, and walk away.
An ice sculpture drips into a sagging mess.
My heels punch through the manicured grass.
At least I can make limping look natural, simple.
I peer back into the museum’s halls,
no clue where the latest marvel is.
Every impression looks the same to me:
their blues and greens are soothing,
but I want to be the vein in the marble,
the only thing interrupting its purity.
Day turns the corner into evening.
Everybody had a great time looking good.
The paintings hang, unwatched, in the dark.
OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT
Things are tough all over.
I’ve just been notified that my cloud
is completely full.
Even the dog just wants to be left alone.
We try to muddle through,
somehow. I rehang last year’s calendar
just to spite this year.
Someone tags me in a post:
If you haven’t yet voted
for the best album of 1993, now’s the time!
The dog walks out of the room.
On TV, someone places a crown of flowers
on the head of a serial killer.
In the meantime, what am I supposed to do
with these balloons?
How much cocoa do I add
to the boiling water?
Pleasure is anyone’s guess.
All I want is for someone to drop
a cherry into my cocktail, mid-sip.
It’s the little things I miss
about all of my future desires.
Even the sloth, smiling serenely,

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