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How to Feed a Horse is a manuscript in three parts: One, “Ranch Poems,” activities, contemplations, awareness of the creek environment. Two, “Numerology,” disparate poems that invite us to consider the absurd in our language, politics, history, and human relationships. Three, “Her(e),” conversations with a network of women, some imagined, some historic, some intimate. The author’s preoccupations with climate change and our deteriorating planetary environment surface as she gives herself over to be witness to the landscape, its decline and perseverance, its glory and rich legacy. The poems are also love poems; they show the ecstasy and shock of the now.

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Women Authors

Loss

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Grief

Death

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Publié par	Red Hen Press
Date de parution	11 mai 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781597098670
Langue	English

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HOW TO FEED A HORSE
HOW TO FEED A HORSE
poems
Janice Dewey
Crooked Hearts Press
You shall love your crooked neighbor
with your crooked heart.
—W. H. Auden
How to Feed a Horse
Copyright © 2021 by Janice Dewey
All Rights Reserved
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner.
Acknowledgments: “Sound Pillows,” “Electricity,” and “Moon” appeared in Spiral Orb #6 (2013). “Red Juice” and “Guidebook to the Maladies” appeared in The Daybreak and Willingness Club (4D Productions, 2002).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Dewey, Janice, author.
Title: How to feed a horse : poems / Janice Dewey.
Description: First edition. | Pasadena : Crooked Hearts Press, [2021]
Identifiers: LCCN 2020041003 | ISBN 9781597098663 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781597098670 (epub)
Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.
Classification: LCC PS3604.E9165 H69 2021 | DDC 811/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020041003
The National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Ahmanson Foundation, the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, the Max Factor Family Foundation, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation, the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Audrey & Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation, the Kinder Morgan Foundation, the Meta & George Rosenberg Foundation, the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, the Adams Family Foundation, the Riordan Foundation, Amazon Literary Partnership, the Sam Francis Foundation, and the Mara W. Breech Foundation partially support Red Hen Press.

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Published by Crooked Hearts Press
an imprint of Red Hen Press
www.redhen.org
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Acknowledgments
I would like to acknowledge my writing group first and foremost, for through this community I gained the confidence to write and keep writing: Karen Falkenstrom, Lisa Cooper, Barbara Allen, Barrie Ryan, Rita Magdaleno. Gracias, queridas hermanas.
The Poetry Center at the University of Arizona has been my laboratory, educational fountain of living words, and platform for teaching for over two decades. Through various directors Alison Deming, Mark Wunderlich, Frances Sjoberg, Gail Browne, and Tyler Meier, the center continues its renowned and successful mission. Dean Pat MacCorquodale assured my place there with honors students, where we shared the past, the now, and the future through poetry. I thank you all for this synergy.
I am forever grateful to these exceptional readers/editors: Barbara Allen, Richard Shelton, Barbara Cully, Karen Brennan, and Cynthia Hogue, poets extraordinaire.
I wish to acknowledge my sister, Donna. Our constant conversations and travels through languages and their peoples are as regular as the tides.
Barrie Ryan and Mezcal Mt. Ranch were the beginning of things, and so many poems came out of that riparian paradise. And little did I know when Eleanor Wilner entered my classroom that she would be the propulsion for this book. My deepest gratitude to both, for they are in their own ways the alpha and omega of this project.
For my dearest friend, Barbara Allen, I can only say thank you for helping, supporting, inspiring, and making me laugh. Our friendship has always walked crooked, driven crooked, and talked crooked with love.
Without these angels, no book:
Barrie Mirto Barbara
Cynthia Eleanor
Marcella
Inferno
Summer inferno with drought markers: grasshopper invasion biting flies
gas refrigerator dead herding dogs exhausted from shooing horned creatures
creek artery drying out
sitting there in the long-looking long field
orange brown dried leaves
stark armed and legged trees
so much hacking by chain now
sycamores and ash
one bird and one bird
looking south toward the Gila snaking water
green soaked treasure grove borders the cattle
arranges them along broken limbs where they twist stalks of seep willow
flourishing in green brooking the landscape and brooming it too
one bird and one bird in field capsule hover in want
Contents
Bull’s Eye
Ranch Triptych
Coyote Dog
CANYON WREN
Chapter one: Home
Chapter two: Canyon Wren Moving, Transfer and Storage
Chapter three: Sound Pillows
Chapter four: Electricity
Chapter five: Moon
Chapter six: The End & Return
Water Wonder
Chama
Fluorescence
Conjuring
Late Fall
(tiny opera of grief)
San Juan’s Day
How to feed a horse
Little Sure Shot
NUMEROLOGY
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
HER(E)
Now 70
Sophie
Immigrants
Etymology Tree
Royal Whim
Translation
How to repair with eyes complex enough they know in all directions
Solution
Elder
Story
Ambush
Gender-flipping on Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday)
Guidebook to the Maladies
For Barbara Allen
Red Juice
Closure
Even grief gets hungry and demands more grief.
Defining the Rules
Transfiguration
Would a prophet undo clutter in the writing?

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