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    The Moonmen
    The Moonmen
    The Moonmen
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    The Moonmen

    By Anna Livesey

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    Building onthe impressive debutof Good Luck, this new collection from Anna Livesey contains poems that capture the eerie and exhilarating aspects of daily life. All the poems combine a crisp and shapely style with breathtaking openness and urgency in addressing personal material, particularly inthe poet'sresponses to her mother's illness andher thoughts aboutliving in the United States.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVictoria University Press
    Release dateFeb 1, 2011
    ISBN9780864736635
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      Book preview

      The Moonmen - Anna Livesey

      I The Moonmen

      Young Love

      Your body held the awkwardness of a breaking voice—

      the obvious metaphor holds true, a young animal, clumsy,

      still surprised by itself.

      Remember a night in a tent on the south coast?

      A cautious night, a play at touching.

      In the last flush of summer we spent all our pocket money,

      ate lunch in the olive grove, kissed in the grass.

      Your father died, my mother got sick.

      We slept in a blue room under the garage.

      Days tumbled after one another.

      Families opened and shut in new shapes.

      I wrote poems in praise of your body.

      February, the Eastbourne sun.

      The world gathered to watch us break a glass,

      hold a bunch of flowers, kiss.

      This was the year of making a display, of moving north.

      In our first flat we lived on the edge of a gully,

      under the hospital’s constant mistresses,

      the swarming helicopters and the

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