Stick that Breaks and Breaks

MARIANNE BORUCH'S recent work is a 7th collection of poems, The Book of Hours and a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler, both published in 2011. She’s currently on a Fulbright, teaching and writing at the University of Edinburgh.

• Omens • Momentar, In Winter • Lent • Halfway • In the Street, Men Working • Sewing • Camouflage • Chinese Brushwork • Nesting Boxes • Car Covered with Snow • The Vietnam Birthday Lottery, 1970 • The Book of Hand Shadows • I Notice on My Walk • Swimming Lesson • The Auction • The Great Ape House • The Hawk • Snow Falling • Stained Glass Windows • Bird Passing • Library Stereopticon • Fasting • Tulip Tree • Lament • I Paint My Bad Painting • The Dove • Late Winter Fog • Fish • Aubade • Head of an Unknown Saint • Hospital Greenhouse • Smoking • The Exterminator • At the Watercolor Gallery • Waiting Out the Music Lesson • Fireworks at New Year • The American Opera Company • Old Ball Field • The Bay Waters • By the Sea • Two Umbrellas • Exhaustion • X-Ray Vision • A Small Thing • Home Videos of the Hurricane • Above the Chinese Cemetery • In Your Garden • After Surgery • Flowers • Cello • Old Cemetery • Year in Hawaii • Nest • Acknowledgments