Marabou
By Jane Yeh
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Jane Yeh
Jane Yeh was born in America and has lived in London since 2002. She holds degrees in English and Creative Writing from Harvard, Iowa, Manchester Metropolitan, and Royal Holloway London universities. Her first collection of poems, Marabou (Carcanet, 2005), was shortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward, and Aldeburgh poetry prizes. She was named a Next Generation poet by the Poetry Book Society for her second collection, The Ninjas (Carcanet, 2012). A Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Open University, she also writes on books, theatre, and fashion for such publications as The Poetry Review and The Village Voice.
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Marabou - Jane Yeh
JANE YEH
Marabou
Acknowledgements
Grateful thanks to the editors of the publications in which some of these poems first appeared: Antioch Review; Boston Review; Grolier Poetry Prize Annual; LIT; Metre; New Poetries III (Carcanet, 2002); New Voices: University and College Prizes, 1989-1998 (The Academy of American Poets, 2002); PN Review; Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (Bedford/St Martin’s, 2002); Poetry (Chicago); Poetry Review; Quarterly West; The Times Literary Supplement; TriQuarterly.
The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the New York Foundation for the Arts and its grant of an Artist Fellowship.
Contents
Title Page
Acknowledgements
I
Correspondence
Double Wedding, 1615
The Pre-Raphælites
Adultery
Convent at Haarlem
Cumbria
The Only Confirmed Cast Member Is Ook the Owl, Who Has Been Tapped To Play the Snowy White Owl Who Delivers Mail for Harry
II
Bad Quarto
Telegraphic
Monster
Paris, 1899
Teen Spies
Biological
Blue China
Love in a Cold Climate I
Love in a Cold Climate II
Divining
France, 1919
Substitution
Defence
Portrait at Windsor
Seaside Resorts
Parliament of Fowls
House
Fête Champêtre
Vesuvius (In the Priests’ Quarters)
III
Shoemaker’s Holiday
Revenger’s Tragedy
Rhode Island Waltz
Alchemy
Exercises
Self-Portrait After Vermeer
Notes
About the Author
Copyright
I
Correspondence
I’ve gotten nothing for weeks. You might think of me
As dated in a blue housecoat, buttoning and unbuttoning,
Waiting you out: I have my ways
Of keeping time. When your letter comes, dogs will bark
Up and down the street. The tomatoes in the garden
Will explode like fireworks. Each day the mailman passes
In a reverie, illiterate, another cobweb
Grows across the door. Picture me
Going bald one hair at a time, combing and curling, burning
My hand on the iron once every hour: I like to
Keep