Human Love

by Doreen Gildroy

Prolusion

This is my kitchen.
I looked around.

You think I would have noticed before
that it was safe.

(I started to feel.)

What I wanted first
was color.

I intended terra cotta,
but the paint turned
twice as vibrant:
true orange.

(And then I became used to
boldness.)

Doreen Gildroy's second book of poems is a marvel of lyric exactitude. On the surface a book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226293300
• ISBN13: 9780226293301
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 8.6"