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The Trembling Answers
The Trembling Answers
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WINNER OF THE 2018 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE

An extension of and a departure from previous explorations of family and art, these poems delve boldly into tangled realities of fatherhood, marriage, and poetry. Dealing with the day-to-day of family life—including the alert anxiety and remarkable beauty of caring for a child with cerebral palsy—these personal narratives illuminate the relationship that exists between poetry and a life fiercely lived.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 17, 2017
ISBN9781942683322
The Trembling Answers
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Craig Morgan Teicher

Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of four books of poems: Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey (BOA, 2021); The Trembling Answers (BOA, 2017), which won the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; To Keep Love Blurry (BOA, 2012); and Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems (CLP, 2007), winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry. He also wrote Cradle Book: Stories and Fables (BOA, 2010) and the chapbook Ambivalence and Other Conundrums (Omnidawn, 2014). His first collection of essays, We Begin in Gladness, was published by Graywolf in November, 2018. Teicher edited Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz (New Directions, 2016) and serves as a poetry editor for The Literary Review. He writes about books for many publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The LA Times, and NPR. He worked for many years at Publishers Weekly and is now Digital Director of The Paris Review. He is a 2021 recipient of a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and children.

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    The Trembling Answers - Craig Morgan Teicher

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    THE TREMBLING ANSWERS

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    40 for 40 Major Gift Donors

    Lannan Foundation

    Gouvernet Arts Fund

    Angela Bonazinga & Catherine Lewis

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    Copyright © 2017 by Craig Morgan Teicher

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    Publications by BOA Editions, Ltd.—a not-for-profit corporation under section 501 (c) (3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code—are made possible with funds from a variety of sources, including public funds from the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the County of Monroe, NY. Private funding sources include the Lannan Foundation for support of the Lannan Translations Selection Series; the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation; the Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust; the Rochester AreaCommunity Foundation; the Steeple-Jack Fund; the Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust in memory of Henry Ames, Semon Amzalak, and Dan Amzalak; and contributions from many individuals nationwide. See Colophon on page 88 for special individual acknowledgments.

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    Interior Design and Composition: Richard Foerster

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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Names: Teicher, Craig Morgan, 1979– author.

    Title: The trembling answers : poems / by Craig Morgan Teicher.

    Description: First edition. | Rochester, NY : BOA Editions Ltd., [2017] | Series: American poets continuum ; 160

    Identifiers: LCCN 2016045572| ISBN 9781942683315 (paperback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781942683322 (ebook)

    Subjects: | BISAC: POETRY / American / General. | FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Children with Special Needs. | FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood.

    Classification: LCC PS3620.E4359 A6 2017 | DDC 811/.6—dc23

    LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016045572

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    Contents

    Title Page

    Copyright

    Dedication

    ONE

    Every Turning

    Self-Portrait Beside Myself

    Free

    Night Nurse

    Tracheotomy

    Video Baby Monitor

    Centering

    The Hairdryer Cord Is All Tangled

    Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography

    TWO

    Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography

    Nest

    Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography

    Apprehension

    Where Am I?

    In the Waiting Room

    THREE

    Book Review: The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford

    FOUR

    Self-Portrait as the Man I’ve Become

    Letters to Brenda

    Which Is the Best Part of the Day?

    Low Note

    All Elegies

    Tomorrow and Tomorrow Again

    Another Day

    Edgemont

    Gnostic

    Another Poem on My Daughter’s Birthday

    Acknowledgments

    About the Author

    Colophon

    ONE

    Every Turning

    Every turning toward is

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