Grief Sequence

Prageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019), Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007), The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award, she recently became the Henry G. Lee ’37 Professor of English at Pomona College.

Contents



 



ON SECLUSION AND LOOKING OUT



COMPLICATED SPIRITUAL GRIEF, PART 1



COMPLICATED SPIRITUAL GRIEF, PART 2



A HUMAN WITH FEELINGS



UNDER CLOUDS



SEVENTIES LITE & FOURTEEN JOYS & FOURTEEN FURIES



NOVEMBER 23, 2014



SEQUENCES



SEQUENCE 1



SEQUENCE 2



SEQUENCE 5



SEQUENCE 6



SEQUENCE 7



SEQUENCES WITH TITLES



PETTY SEQUENCES



BETWEEN SIGHS



MY POEM FOR MY STEPDAUGHTER



MY POEM ABOUT LAST SOUNDS



RETURNING TO OUR CREATION MYTH



MY POEM ABOUT FALSE FRIENDS



SETS OF THINGS



I LOOK AT YOUR HANDWRITING



MY SENSORIAL PROSE POEM



MOURNING



MY NATURE POEM



MY POEM ABOUT NEW FRIENDSHIP



GLACIER NATIONAL PARK



GLACIER NATIONAL PARK & THE ELEGY



DREAMING WITHOUT KNOWING



MY POEM IN A POETRY HOLE WITH YOU



I COME SO TOGETHER WHERE YOU ARE



ABIDE



YOU LACK FALSEHOOD



MARCH WIND



YOUR HARD SURFACE LAYER



HERMETIC



SEATTLE SUN



THE FUNNY OPPOSITE



POETRY OBITUARY & NOTES



THE MOON HAS SET: POETRY OBITUARY



LESS MUSIC: NOTES ON POEMS



 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS