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paper \u2022 116 pages \u2022 $17.95
\nISBN: 978-1-954245-24-2
\neISBN: 978-1-954245-35-8
\nSeptember 2022 \u2022 Poetry<\/p>\n

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Undress, She Said<\/em><\/h1>\n

Doug Anderson<\/h2>\n

In Doug Anderson\u2019s newest collection, <\/span>Undress, She Said<\/em>,<\/span> we accompany a speaker undaunted by the complex reckonings of history, evolving relationships, and an aging body<\/span>, a speaker that, besieged by a storm, resolves to \u201cset out into it, the wind \/ playing the rigging like a harp.\u201d Over and over in these pages, Anderson makes music of the gales and rain and turbulent sea. These poems voyage from the subtle violences of a religious upbringing to complex remembrances of time served in the Vietnam War to contemporary emergencies of real and political plagues. Yet, no matter the subject, compassion rudders these lyrics as they turn always and at last to myriad beloveds \u2014 the enigmatic Angel of Death, literary and mythological influences, kind strangers, the constantly elusive and elusively constant moon. These words reach out to its readers the way the poet addresses frozen joy from the confines of winter: \u201cRed berry trapped in ice, \/ let me touch you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

“Wings,” from Undress, She Said<\/em><\/p>\n

Been so long since I\u2019ve been loved, even touched,
\n<\/span>I told her, with no self-pity in my voice, just fact,
\nand she reached over and took my hand<\/span>
\nin both of hers and felt deftly its several bones<\/span>
\nand worn gristle that held them in place<\/span>
\nas if she were holding a bird that hit a glass door,<\/span>
\nto feel it come back to life in her hands.<\/span><\/p>\n

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