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bury it


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       bury it

       wesleyan poetry

       ALSO BY SAM SAX

       book

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      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2018 Sam Sax

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Designed and typeset in Calluna by Eric M. Brooks

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      NAMES: Sax, Sam, author.

      TITLE: Bury it / Sam Sax.

      DESCRIPTION: Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2018. Series: Wesleyan poetry

      IDENTIFIERS: LCCN 2018008568 (print) | LCCN 2018012530 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819577320 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819577313 (pbk.)

      CLASSIFICATION: LCC PS3569.A896 (ebook) | LCC PS3569.A896 B87 2018 (print)

      DDC 811/.54—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018008568

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       This project is supported in part by an award from the

       National Endowment for the Arts.

      Front cover illustration: Art by Carolin Wanitzek, Die Traditionelle Tote Tiere Tombola

       for my family

       blood & otherwise

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      The term “epitaph” itself means

      “something to be spoken at a burial or

      engraved upon a tomb.” When an epitaph

      is a poem … and appears in a book, we

      are aware that we are not reading it in its

      proper form: we are reading a reproduction.

      The original of the epitaph is the tomb

      itself, with its words cut into the stone.

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      I am eager to burn….

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      contents

       1 Will

       ROPE

       5 Bildungsroman

       6 Ultrasound

       7 New God of an Antique War

       8 Buena Vista Park 2AM

       9 Pentimento

       12 Standards

       14 Essay on Crying in Public

       15 Bury

       DRAW

       21 Missing Persons

       24 Bridges

       25 Hydrophobia

       28 Risk

       29 MDMA

       30 Meat

       32 Synonyms For Raw

       33 I Want So Desperately to Be Finished with Desire

       STONE

       39 Kaddish

       TOLL

       47 First Will & Testament

       48 Silent Auction

       49 Weather Underground

       51 Diaspora

       52 Worry

       55 Treyf

       57 Estate Planning

       58 Controlled Burn

       60 Impossible Drama

       62 Naubade

       63 Objectophile

       64 Surveillance

       SUSPENSION