Camille T. Dungy

Trophic Cascade


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      TROPHIC CASCADE

      Wesleyan Poetry

      TROPHIC CASCADE

      Camille T. Dungy

      Wesleyan University Press | Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2017 Camille T. Dungy

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Designed by Mindy Basinger Hill

      Typeset in Adobe Caslon Pro

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Dungy, Camille T., 1972– author.

      Title: Trophic cascade / Camille T. Dungy.

      Description: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017] |

      Series: Wesleyan poetry

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016042846 (print) | LCCN 2016051445 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819577191 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780819577207 (ebook)

      Classification: LCC PS3604.U538 A6 2017 (print) | LCC PS3604.U538 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016042846

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      Cover illustration: Photograph by Sean Hill

      Contents

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       Natural History 3

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       Before the fetus proves viable, a stroll creekside in the High Sierra 7

       “still in a state of uncreation” 8

       Ars Poetica: Mercator Projection 9

       Ultrasound 11

       Ars Poetica: Cove Song 12

       Nullipara 14

       Ars Poetica: Field Trip 15

       Trophic Cascade 16

       After Birth 17

       Frequently Asked Questions: #1 19

       Frequently Asked Questions: #2 20

       Ars Poetica after William Carlos Williams 21

       Frequently Asked Questions: #3 22

       Ars Poetica Apocalyptica 23

       Last Kiss 24

       Glacial Erratics 25

       Conspiracy 27

       Frequently Asked Questions: #4 29

       Frequently Asked Questions: #5 30

       Ars Poetica: After the Dam 31

       Mother daughter hour 32

       Notes on what is always with us 33

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       There are these moments of permission 37

       Because it looked hotter that way 38

       Poor Translation 39

       From the First, the Body Was Dirt 41

       Still life 43

       Characteristics of Life 44

       Frequently Asked Questions: #6 46

       Bîtan 47

       One to Watch, and One to Pray 48

       Frequently Asked Questions: #7 50

       Brevity 51

       Frequently Asked Questions: #8 53

       soldier’s girl 54

       What I know I cannot say 55

       Assignment #3: Write About Your Favorite Book 57

       Frequently Asked Questions: #9 59

       Against Nostalgia 60

       Where bushes periodically burn, children fear other children: girls 61

       Frequently Asked Questions: #10