Shift
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Shift
Shift traces the love between two women over several years and explores the intricacies of family relationships. Jeredith Merrin’s poems, moving from ecstatic love lyrics to poems of familial affection and damage, to grave, more mature love poems, are psychologically loaded and technically sophisticated. These poems convey a wonderful sense of the sexual and social complexity of human relationships.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Opening Up
Shift
End of Summer
Mutual Attraction
"The Lineaments of Gratified Desire"
From the Rooftops
The Best Cook
Grieving
Moving
The Right Words
Saturdays at the Met
Blackmail
Big Sister
Blurry
Four Dream Houses
To Gram at Ninety
Gram
Divorce, a Letter to Canada
Red Curtains
Lisa, Reading
Summer before College
Unlike Her
At the Artists’ Colony: Lake Forest, Illinois
The Shadow Plant
Autumn Drive
Fourth and Main
Dream-View of Delft
Criminal Defense
The Flood
Journal Entry, WordPerfect 5.1
Sublunar
Blue Skies
Notes
Opening Up
Shift
End of Summer
Mutual Attraction
"The Lineaments of Gratified Desire"
From the Rooftops
The Best Cook
Grieving
Moving
The Right Words
Saturdays at the Met
Blackmail
Big Sister
Blurry
Four Dream Houses
To Gram at Ninety
Gram
Divorce, a Letter to Canada
Red Curtains
Lisa, Reading
Summer before College
Unlike Her
At the Artists’ Colony: Lake Forest, Illinois
The Shadow Plant
Autumn Drive
Fourth and Main
Dream-View of Delft
Criminal Defense
The Flood
Journal Entry, WordPerfect 5.1
Sublunar
Blue Skies
Notes