WILDER
WILDER
Claire Wahmanholm
Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry
Selected by Rick Barot
MILKWEED EDITIONS
© 2018, Text by Claire Wahmanholm
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Published 2018 by Milkweed Editions
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Wahmanholm, Claire, author.
Title: Wilder : poems / Claire Wahmanholm.
Description: First edition. | Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018027567 (print) | LCCN 2018028516 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571319951 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571315069 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Classification: LCC PS3623.A35648 (ebook) | LCC PS3623.A35648 A6 2018 (print) | DDC 811/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018027567
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CONTENTS
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[An Alien General Collected Us]
[In a Flash of Light]
[The World is Very Distant]
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[Men Wander among Us]
[We Grow Up Frozen]
Poem after All the Children Have Disappeared
[At the End]
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