Hard Damage

Aria Aber is a Ron Wallace Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, the New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Narrative, and other publications.

Source Acknowledgments
Reading Rilke in Berlin
I.
First Snow
Asylum
Dream with Horse
Family Reunion
Can You Describe Your Years in Prison?
Azalea Azalea
Funeral in Paris
There
Here
How to Pronounce John Frusciante Correctly
Blessed Are the Rich
Ode to My Hair
Unmotioning
Smells Like Liberty
What Your Life Was Like
II.
Mother of All Balms
Nostalgia Is Not the Right Word
Reading Rilke at Lake Mendota, Wisconsin
Vagabond
Sisterhood
At the Hospital, My Language
I Wake Up Curled Up in a C. D. Wright Poem
The Ownership of Naming Things
Stone
Self-Portrait as Wounded Doe of Artemis
My Father Drives Me to Düsseldorf Airport
Foreign Policies
III.
Rilke and I
ich / I
Lass / Let
dir / You
Alles / All
Geschehn / Happen
Schönheit / Beauty
Und / And
Schrecken / Terror
IV.
Covert United States Involvement in Regime Change, I
Operation Cyclone
I. Chaos
II. Blue Bottle Fly Condition
III. Hera
IV. Ex Nihilo
V. Hades
VI. Dionysus
VII. Ares
VIII. Cyclopes
IX. Cronus
X. Catalogue of Grief
XI. Interrogation Chamber
Covert United States Involvement in Regime Change, II
Operation Timber Sycamore
V.
The First Toast
Nostos
Fata Morgana, 1987
Meskonsing
Your Whole Life Must Become a Sign and Witness to This Impulse
Operation Cyclone, Years Later
The Only Cab Service of Farmington, Maine
Inventory of Lost Conditionals
Acknowledgments
Notes