The Schizophrenic Table: Poems New and Selected

By Chris Clendenin

Poems in voices one cannot imagine nor easily forget. Transformation and surprise again and again, as if every poem is written by a different person.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jul 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781663226006

Chris Clendenin

Chris Clendenin’s poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Wascana Review, The Quarterly, The American Poetry Review, College English, Connecticut Quarterly, Skanky Possum and elsewhere. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

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iUniverse rev. date: 07/15/2021

For Wild Je

anne

A table which lent itself to no function,

self-protective, denying itself to service

and communication alike. There was some-

thing stunned about it, something petrified.

Perhaps it suggested a stalled engine.

—Henri Michaux

Contents

The Schizophrenic Table

Cheese Storm

Do

Stuck in His Ways

Lent

Worse than Your Worst

At Bottom

Further Notice

Implant

If I Took an Intelligence Test

Devil’s Advocate

Trust Me

How Light Falls