Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems Read online

  “Ain’t No Use”: Sarah Vaughn, The Divine One, CFP Domestic, 2007.

  “Iris Nevis”: “Eros Turannos,” Edwin Arlington Robinson, Selected Poems, New York: Penguin, 1997.

  “Anna Karenina”: The opening sentence of Tolstoy’s novel is, “Happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Brilliant Corners: Ain’t No Use

  Cerise Press: Legend

  Chattahoochee Review: Rush

  Cortland Review: The History of Gods

  Fogged Clarity: Anna Karenina; Blackjack (under the title “Blackjack Imaginings”); Calendar; Catechism; The Scholar; To Autumn (under the title “Bare Tree”)

  The Georgia Review: Babel; Delicious

  Glassworks: Dada Doodads

  Little Star: Now Here

  Memorious: Stop and Listen

  Minnesota Review: Salvage

  The New Yorker: Seen from the Porch, a Bear by the House

  Poetry: Anatomy of Melancholy; Soundings

  Prairie Schooner: Ode to My Boots

  Shenandoah: First Person; Nightingale Capability

  The Southampton Review: “American Archangel”; Socialists; The Art of Excavation

  Tygerburning Literary Journal: For I Will Consider My Cat Lenore; Goldfinches; Spring Is Here

  The Yale Review: On a Series of Four Photographs

  “Earthquake Light” appeared in the Global Poetry Anthology, Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2012.

  Robert Wrigley’s previous books include Beautiful Country (2010); Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (2006); and Lives of the Animals (2003). A recipient of the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award, the Kingsley Tufts Award, and the Poets’ Prize, he teaches at the University of Idaho and lives on Moscow Mountain, with his wife, the writer Kim Barnes.

  Penguin Poets

  JOHN ASHBERY

  Selected Poems

  Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

  TED BERRIGAN

  The Sonnets

  LAUREN BERRY

  The Lifting Dress

  JOE BONOMO

  Installations

  PHILIP BOOTH

  Selves

  JULIANNE BUCHSBAUM

  The Apothecary’s Heir

  JIM CARROLL

  Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems

  Living at the Movies

  Void of Course

  ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING

  Genius Loci

  Rope

  CARL DENNIS

  Callings

  New and Selected Poems 1974–2004

  Practical Gods

  Ranking the Wishes

  Unknown Friends

  DIANE DI PRIMA

  Loba

  STUART DISCHELL

  Backwards Days

  Dig Safe

  STEPHEN DOBYNS

  Velocities: New and Selected Poems, 1966–1992

  EDWARD DORN

  Way More West: New and Selected Poems

  ROGER FANNING

  The Middle Ages

  ADAM FOULDS

  The Broken Word

  CARRIE FOUNTAIN

  Burn Lake

  AMY GERSTLER

  Crown of Weeds: Poems

  Dearest Creature

  Ghost Girl

  Medicine

  Nerve Storm

  EUGENE GLORIA

  Drivers at the Short-Time Motel

  Hoodlum Birds

  My Favorite Warlord

  DEBORA GREGER

  By Herself

  Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters

  God

  Men, Women, and Ghosts

  Western Art

  TERRANCE HAYES

  Hip Logic

  Lighthead

  Wind in a Box

  ROBERT HUNTER

  Sentinel and Other Poems

  MARY KARR

  Viper Rum

  WILLIAM KECKLER

  Sanskrit of the Body

  JACK KEROUAC

  Book of Sketches

  Book of Blues

  Book of Haikus

  JOANNA KLINK

  Circadian

  Raptus

  JOANNE KYGER

  As Ever: Selected Poems

  ANN LAUTERBACH

  Hum

  If in Time: Selected Poems, 1975–2000

  On a Stair

  Or to Begin Again

  CORINNE LEE

  PYX

  PHILLIS LEVIN

  May Day

  Mercury

  WILLIAM LOGAN

  Macbeth in Venice

  Madame X

  Strange Flesh

  The Whispering Gallery

  ADRIAN MATEJKA

  Mixology

  MICHAEL MCCLURE

  Huge Dreams: San Francisco and Beat Poems

  DAVID MELTZER

  David’s Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer

  ROBERT MORGAN

  Terroir

  CAROL MUSKE-DUKES

  An Octave above Thunder

  Red Trousseau

  Twin Cities

  ALICE NOTLEY

  Culture of One

  The Descent of Alette

  Disobedience

  In the Pines

  Mysteries of Small Houses

  LAWRENCE RAAB

  The History of Forgetting

  Visible Signs: New and Selected Poems

  BARBARA RAS

  The Last Skin

  One Hidden Stuff

  MICHAEL ROBBINS

  Alien vs. Predator

  PATTIANN ROGERS

  Generations

  Wayfare

  WILLIAM STOBB

  Absentia

  Nervous Systems

  TRYFON TOLIDES

  An Almost Pure Empty Walking

  ANNE WALDMAN

  Gossamurmur

  Kill or Cure

  Manatee/Humanity

  Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble

  JAMES WELCH

  Riding the Earthboy 40

  PHILIP WHALEN

  Overtime: Selected Poems

  ROBERT WRIGLEY

  Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems

  Beautiful Country

  Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems

  Lives of the Animals

  Reign of Snakes

  MARK YAKICH

  The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine

  Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross

  JOHN YAU

  Borrowed Love Poems

  Paradiso Diaspora

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  ALSO BY ROBERT WRIGLEY

  Beautiful Country

  Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems

  Lives of the Animals

  Reign of Snakes

  In the Bank of Beautiful Sins

  What My Father Believed

  Moon in a Mason Jar

  The Sinking of Clay City