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    No Object
    No Object
    No Object
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    No Object

    By Natalie Shapero

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    An unforgettable collection of funny and heartbreaking poems by a remarkable new voice in American poetry“It is unbefitting to believe in ghosts, to believe what one reads,/what one writes,” writes Natalie Shapero in her mischievous debut collection. With sharp wit and relentless questioning, Shapero crafts poems a reader can, if not believe in, then trust—to level with us, to surprise us, and to stay with us long after we put the book down. No Object is a fast ride you will not easily forget.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSaturnalia Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2013
    ISBN9781625170705
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      No Object - Natalie Shapero

      No Object

      Natalie Shapero

      ©2013 Natalie Shapero

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Please direct inquiries to:

      Saturnalia Books

      105 Woodside Rd.

      Ardmore, PA 19003

      info@saturnaliabooks.com

      eISBN: 978-1-6251707-0-5

      ISBN: 978-0-9833686-7-0

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012953011

      Book Design by Saturnalia Books

      Printing by Westcan Printing Group, Canada

      Cover Art: Becky Alexander

      Distributed by:

      University Press of New England

      1 Court Street

      Lebanon, NH 03766

      800-421-1561

      These poems owe much to the smarts of Becky Alexander, David Baker, Jamie Boyle, Michelle Burke, Kathy Fagan, Dave Fishman, Isabel Galbraith, Jason Gray, Andrew Hudgins, Hilary Jacqmin, Carrie Jerrell, Matt Ladd, Tyler Meier, John Poch, Jesse Quillian, Meg Shevenock, Cormac Slevin, Ida Stewart, Pablo Tanguay, Jen Town, Letitia Trent, Doug Watson, and Greg Williamson.

      Thanks to my family: Jonathan Shapero and Eileen Dare, Ruth Cohen and Gerald Cohen, Adrienne Shapero, Shirlee Shapero and Marvin Shapero.

      This book is for R.d.

      Table of Contents

      Epigraph

      Invocation: The Third and Fourth Generation of Them That Hate Me

      Stars

      You’re Allowed

      Kidding, Kidding

      Though In Zero Gravity

      Four Fights

      Sometimes Harmful Never Helpful

      Read It and Weep

      Examples of How To Search

      Ten Lines on a Drop Ad

      Implausible Travel Plans

      A Cup, the Amount of Blood in a Human Heart

      I Don’t Sleep in White

      Orange On the Nail

      One Hundred Degrees Is Not Twice As Cold As Fifty Degrees

      Bad Key

      Horse Story

      Lean Time

      News To Me

      Stranger

      Little Winter

      Nominal Ordinal Interval Ratio

      Our War

      Spare Me

      Arranged Hours

      Hostile Platitudes

      No Please After You

      HOT (NORMAL)

      Flags and Axes

      Admonishment

      You Call This Composition

      The English End

      My Life and Work

      Close Space

      Attributions

      Poems from this book were originally published in the following journals:

      Anti-: [The folder called Trade Secrets I read], [I think I’ll tell my daughters God made breasts], [Are married people happier], [Don’t cry. Men could once be broken]

      The Believer: Orange on the Nail

      Conduit: You’re Allowed

      Dark Sky Magazine: Sometimes Harmful Never Helpful

      failbetter: Our War

      FENCE: The Third and Fourth Generation of Them That Hate Me

      FIELD: Implausible Travel Plans, A Cup, the Amount of Blood in a Human Heart

      Handsome: Stranger, Though in Zero Gravity

      Iron Horse Literary Review: "No Please

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