Shift

Jeredith Merrin is a professor of English at The Ohio State University. She is the author of An Enabling Humility: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Uses of Tradition. Her first book of poetry, Shift, was published by the University of Chicago Press.

Acknowledgments Opening Up Shift End of Summer Mutual Attraction "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire" From the Rooftops The Best Cook Grieving Moving The Right Words Saturdays at the Met Blackmail Big Sister Blurry Four Dream Houses To Gram at Ninety Gram Divorce, a Letter to Canada Red Curtains Lisa, Reading Summer before College Unlike Her At the Artists' Colony: Lake Forest, Illinois The Shadow Plant Autumn Drive Fourth and Main Dream-View of Delft Criminal Defense The Flood Journal Entry, WordPerfect 5.1 Sublunar Blue Skies Notes