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Rise Wildly
In Rise Wildly, poet and journalist Tina Kelley writes with precision, heart, and humor. Touching on matters such as marriage, child-rearing, and caregiving for her mother and her earth, Kelley’s poems betray an unabashed affection for big words and small children. As a journalist, she has heard and told hundreds of stories, and like all reporters, values facts and the psychological heft behind them. Her mind catches on shiny facts and phrases that she gathers in combinations that can surprise, delight, and inform. Both reverent and irreverent, but always aiming for accuracy and empathy, Kelley explores the darkest corners, then lifts her eyes high.
The poems in Rise Wildly touch on stories from the front row seat of Kelley’s life, especially in her role as caregiver. Written with reverence for the vicissitudes of being a mother, wife, and daughter, Rise Wildly touches on it all: birth, childhood, middle age, old age, death, and their epic combinations. Musings on fact, fiction, music, nature, and family are relayed with humor, grief, joy, and adoration.
The poems in Rise Wildly touch on stories from the front row seat of Kelley’s life, especially in her role as caregiver. Written with reverence for the vicissitudes of being a mother, wife, and daughter, Rise Wildly touches on it all: birth, childhood, middle age, old age, death, and their epic combinations. Musings on fact, fiction, music, nature, and family are relayed with humor, grief, joy, and adoration.
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Table of Contents
1.
I Wish You Had Known, When You Launched Me
Why I Cried Reading This at Liss and James’ Wedding
Planting, Nearest the Prayer
On a Record James Agee Recites from Memory
His Poems, Auden’s, Shakespeare’s, Etc.
The Brother My Parents Almost Adopted
Vitamin Awe
Adding a New Heartbeat
Getting Through the A’s in Angels: Their Names and Meanings
2.
Watching My Father Watch His Widow
The Fetal Fawn inside the Roadkilled Deer
The 87th Easter
“I’m Having the Death I’d Always Hoped For”
The Hill Looks Steeper, the Two Maples Gone
The Dying-in-Slow-Motion, The Woman Who Taught Me to Knit
What is Metempsychosis?
Help. My Mother is Dead. I Feel Light.
All the Birds Now Silent in the Yard
3.
The Mutual Gratitude of Fountain and Solstice
World Premier, Nocturnal Bird Migration Concert
Epithalamion for Jesus and the Springfield Community Church
Trains Running After Storms
Her Thoughts That October
How You Meet the Year is How You Spend the Year
Map, Lewiston, Idaho, June, 1933
A Dozen Secrets from God
Found, from My Daughter
4.
“Would You Learn Your Lesson if I Made You Take Your Clothes Off?”
“See Something, Say Something”
Notes from a Survey of Home Health Aides
Looking at Saint Francis in the Desert
“Louis Wore His Beeper in His Coffin”
Deserted Trail off the Mountain Loop Highway
Monastery for the Modern Journalist
Watching All the Way Home from a Tough Interview, Seat 28A
5.
Three Endings
Theme and Variations
Please Bring a Moon
On Successfully Becoming Invisible in My Own Home
On the Lackawaxen with Kate, 2008
The Music of Places Going on Without Us
The Menopause Doula
First Weekend Ever Home Alone
To Live: The Imperative
I Wish You Had Known, When You Launched Me
Why I Cried Reading This at Liss and James’ Wedding
Planting, Nearest the Prayer
On a Record James Agee Recites from Memory
His Poems, Auden’s, Shakespeare’s, Etc.
The Brother My Parents Almost Adopted
Vitamin Awe
Adding a New Heartbeat
Getting Through the A’s in Angels: Their Names and Meanings
2.
Watching My Father Watch His Widow
The Fetal Fawn inside the Roadkilled Deer
The 87th Easter
“I’m Having the Death I’d Always Hoped For”
The Hill Looks Steeper, the Two Maples Gone
The Dying-in-Slow-Motion, The Woman Who Taught Me to Knit
What is Metempsychosis?
Help. My Mother is Dead. I Feel Light.
All the Birds Now Silent in the Yard
3.
The Mutual Gratitude of Fountain and Solstice
World Premier, Nocturnal Bird Migration Concert
Epithalamion for Jesus and the Springfield Community Church
Trains Running After Storms
Her Thoughts That October
How You Meet the Year is How You Spend the Year
Map, Lewiston, Idaho, June, 1933
A Dozen Secrets from God
Found, from My Daughter
4.
“Would You Learn Your Lesson if I Made You Take Your Clothes Off?”
“See Something, Say Something”
Notes from a Survey of Home Health Aides
Looking at Saint Francis in the Desert
“Louis Wore His Beeper in His Coffin”
Deserted Trail off the Mountain Loop Highway
Monastery for the Modern Journalist
Watching All the Way Home from a Tough Interview, Seat 28A
5.
Three Endings
Theme and Variations
Please Bring a Moon
On Successfully Becoming Invisible in My Own Home
On the Lackawaxen with Kate, 2008
The Music of Places Going on Without Us
The Menopause Doula
First Weekend Ever Home Alone
To Live: The Imperative