Trio

"Trio: three books of poetry -- Planet Parable, by Karen Donovan; Run, by Diane Raptosh; Endless Body by Daneen Wardrop-bound together in one accommodating volume; three distinct and fully realized, absorbing universes that stand on their own but, here, not apart. Inevitably, serendipitously, the intelligences, preoccupations, prosodic signatures begin to reverberate and ricochet, not just for readers but for the poets themselves, who together, in an afterward, comment on the project and create an intriguing cento of combined lines. Individually, Karen Donovan's poems unspool lyric macrocosms and microcosms with equal and precise astonishment; Diane Raptosh's poems unveil and reclaim with intimacy the spiritual, sexual and political history of Victoria Woodhull, an American feminist purged from the annals; and the poems of Dareen Wardrop, with close and darting attention, create an intricate, syncopated network. Each of these three poets, with daring and mastery, compels on her own; together in Trio, their synergy is riveting"--

PLANET PARABLE
Karen Donovan

: Upon opening the archive
: All is marl
Taking a Night Kayak Through Bullock Cove
I Hear the Many
This Noon
Three More Questions for the Red-Winged Angels
Flashlight : Star Chart : Feet Up
The Pearlescent Swirl Off Our Bodies at the Edge of This Warm Sea Has Got to Be Quite a Sight
A Closed Four-Dimensional Spacetime Manifold of Vanishing Radius
The Protective Waves of the Ordinary
Pay No Attention to the People in Charge
I Think All of This Could Be Almost Like Breathing
I Saw Egrets Flying

: All is magma
Every Direction Continues
Fusion in a Jar
Nude with a Popsicle
Quite a Bit Much
This Is Why Advanced Ontics Is Taken Pass/Fail
Domestic Ornithosemantics
So Many Swans Could Mean Something
Milk Carton : Wasp : Deuterium : Topaz
If the Sound Is Too Big for This House We Can Blow the Roof Out
Witness States Phantom Vehicle Fled the Scene

: All is metamorphic
For Once
The Crystallographer Invites Me to Look In
My Own
Spring Idiolect
How You Are Exactly Like a Zeolite
Thus Spake the Gutter King to His Minions
Digression Before a Prayer
The Mechanic
Several Additional Simple Imperatives
Picture, Anthropocene Layer
Constellations
Night : Near Christmas : Narragansett Coast
After Reading Marsden, "On the Orbits of Some Long-Lost Comets"
: Universe reverse

RUN: A VERSE-HISTORY OF VICTORIA WOODHULL
Diane Raptosh

Run: The Cast of Main Characters

I. A Sense of Election
In Granville, Ohio, Victoria's Statue Glides Out on the Hour
Anna Claflin: A Mother's Tale
Buck Claflin: Hymn to Victoria
Victoria on Victoria
Tennessee's Waltz
Tennie on Papa Buck
Victoria to Her Future Client
My Dear Sister Tennie, I Just Had the Bumps on My Skull Read
Victoria Takes a Role in the Play, The Corsican Brothers
Tennessee Puts on the Healing Arts
Vic on How to Speak to Ghost Sisters: An Abridged Spiritualist Manual
Odessa Unfolds the Secrets of Money, Heretofore Strictly a Male Preserve
Odessa Telegraphs Tennie the Occasional Ditty
Demosthenes' Auguries

II. The Aisle of Nation

Out and In Every Hour
Tennessee | | Victoria: On Gold and Free Love
Tennessee | | Victoria: Colonelcy | | Equity
Victoria's Stump Speech Psalm
Says Colonel James Harvey Blood, Victoria's Spiritually Adopted Second Husband
Jubilate The New Motor, or The God Machine
Demosthenes Telegraphs Vickie
Victoria: Marriage Song
Mary Baker Eddy v. Victoria Woodhull: What Do You Think of Marriage?
The May 27, 1870, New York Herald Heralds
Extracts from a Letter
Victoria to Lucretia Mott (I)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Ladies' Apparel
Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1871
Letter of Notification
Frederick Douglass: Upon Being Named Victoria's Running Mate (I)
The Day's Headlines, June 5, 1872
Frederick Douglass: Upon Being Named Victoria's Running Mate (II)
Victoria to Walt Whitman

III. A Thousand Onward Years
Out and In Every Hour
Vic Tries Her Hand at a Whitmanesque List
Frederick Douglass: From a Letter Written After the National Convention, 1872
Anarchist Benjamin Tucker's Telegram to Victoria, 1872
Victoria Solos the Stuff of Free Love
Victoria to Lucretia Mott (II)
Telegram from Susan B. Anthony to Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Victoria: Mythology
A Daughter's Motherhood: Zulu's
Dear Victoria,
Frederick Douglass Rethinks Victoria, 1887
Victoria's 1896 Letter to the New York Times with Afterthought Patched In
Excerpts from A New Constitution for the United States of the World
Demosthenes Telegraphs Vickie
X Out
Roadside America Telegraphs Vickie App Ditties Straight to Your Phone
Out and
Victoria Woodhull's Timeline
Notes

ENDLESS BODY
Daneen Wardrop

Cut
Draw into your room the birds curled
Gift
Stir the lake
Body's approach
Next you and next
Bekos
Mozart's starling
Crows
Ants
Bat / echo
Ocelot
+ Angle + shrinking -
Counterpoint
Form for form
Lingering Garden, Suzhou
Lake Michigan dragon
Finch
Caesura
Emily Dickinson undressing
Emily Dickinson undressing
Caesura
Body's otherwise
+ Catch my + slips so easy
Vast
Body worlds
+ Laid asleep + to sleep
Caesura
Freehand, shui mo
Caesura
+ Shifted + the - + dissolve
+ Vast - vast - +
In the bluing street
Afternoon
Afternoon
Notes