Title: Once : poems /
Authors: O'Rourke, Meghan.; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.,
Year: 2011
Subjects: American poetry
Abstract: A collection of poetry by the author that explores grief, loss, death, violence, and recovery.
Contents: Once -- Mothered -- My aunts -- Diagnosis -- Chemotherapy -- Twenty-first century fireworks -- The great escape -- Anticipatory grief -- When it went to her brain -- Extraneous -- Hart -- Preparation -- Elegy : hill without scar -- Frontier -- Appeal to the self -- My life as a subject -- On marriage -- Mala mala -- Churchyard -- In the same boat -- Theory vs. practice -- Ophelia to the court -- Anesthesia -- Love poem -- Apartment living -- My life as a ruler -- Magnolia -- Sonogram -- After her death -- Sex, again -- Inventory -- In defense of pain -- My mother -- Localized -- Pike's Peak -- The resistance to metaphor -- Seven months later -- Still -- Faith.