To Keep Love Blurry (eBook)

Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, selected by Paul Hoover for the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and Cradle Book, named a Notable Book of 2010 by the Story Prize committee. His poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The Nation, The Paris Review and many other publications. He is Director of Digital Operations and Poetry Reviews Editor for Publishers Weekly magazine and served as a Vice President on the board of the National Book Critics Circle from 2009-2012. His book reviews, features and prose pieces appear widely in many venues, including NPR, Bookforum, Slate, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He was founding editor of the MediaBistro blog eBookNewser and is written extensively about digital publishing. He also teaches graduate and undergraduate creative writing courses and NYU and the New School and received his MFA from Columbia University.

Book One: Life StudiesPart OneThe Prince of RiversFatherMotherConfessionIt Came from the Primordial OozeAction ReactionVariations on the Moment of Apprehending the Extent of Oneâs ResponsibilityMotherhoodAngerPart TwoOn His Bed and No Longer Among the LivingPart ThreeTo An Editor Who Said I Repeat Myself and Tell Too MuchGet OutâSometimes We Sleep Well In the Midst of Terrible GriefMy Mom, D. 1994Quatrain Until DawnPart Four: To Keep Love Blurry (Life Studies)I.Goodbye GirlsLate PoemNarcissus and MeSmokingFriendshipOther WomenMasturbationJazzThe Middle GenerationMoney TimeLayoffLines in the RainII.The MeantimeThe Darkness EchoingHomeFameThe Past AheadLike An Answer, YesBook Two: A CelebrationBeginnings for An Essay In Spite of ItselfGrief: A CelebrationNotesAcknowledgements