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Highly anticipated poems from beloved contemporary poet Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier).
In her latest collection, Dara Barrois/Dixon brings generous attention to the things we love—be they animals, books, skyscapes, movies, poems, or other human beings—and the ways in which our stories around them help shape our sense of being.
With the same tender honesty found in all of her poetry, the poems in Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina are curious about the world we inhabit and the worlds we create. Here, with emotional exactitude, is a collection of poems that is unafraid to express "love humor despair loving kindness love humor empathy/humor joy sympathy love kindness courage."
"Without pedantry or obfuscation, Wier’s lines cohere into a philosophical discourse about the poet’s relationship with the world." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Dara Barrois/Dixon (formerly Dara Wier) is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including In the Still of the Night (Wave Books, 2017), You Good Thing (Wave Books, 2013), Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2009), among others. She teaches workshops and form and theory seminars at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and co-directs the University of Massachusetts’ Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Part One
If You Are Lucky
Being Nervous Is Only Human
Taking
Sunset’s Sex
Comes
Where Inanimate Objects Have the Sturdiness of Intoxication Momentarily Evanesced
Telepathic Kinesis
Part Two
Things Art Can Do, Part One and Part Two
Simile for Its Own Sake
Perfect Imitation of Something Familiar
Thru
Capitalism
Waiting
During the Time You Are Deceased
A Few of the Crimes You’ve Committed
Against My Heart
Part Three
Wanderlust, Heartache, Nostalgia, Burning Desire
Trance of Sorrow
Dusty Rabbits in Cosmos Borders
I Feel Sorry for You Someone Said to Me
Over and Over Again
This Is What There Is
I Have a Little Extra Mercy
Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina
Notes & Evidence
Acknowledgments