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Catie Rosemurgy’s Followers (18)
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Catie Rosemurgy
Goodreads Author
Member Since
April 2010
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The Stranger Manual
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published
2009
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3 editions
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My Favorite Apocalypse
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published
2001
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The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works
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published
2013
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3 editions
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First the Burning
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2018
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“I’m… having one of those honeyed afternoons when I don’t know who I am.”
― The Stranger Manual
― The Stranger Manual
“When I was young, I hid under the porch with a star in my throat.
When I got a little older, my mother opened the cupboard to let the fire out.
...
I believe the stories got wet and began to bleed together.
I believe we built the sides of the town too high and the events kept rolling back.
I didn’t know that the water was going to keep rising as well,
but if you have any say in the matter, while the boats go down,
I’d like to be on a ladder,
peeking into a loft made narcotic with children,
a dead pool with rolling, living waves. If possible,
I’d like the water to douse the match that’s growing out of the bones of my hand.”
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When I got a little older, my mother opened the cupboard to let the fire out.
...
I believe the stories got wet and began to bleed together.
I believe we built the sides of the town too high and the events kept rolling back.
I didn’t know that the water was going to keep rising as well,
but if you have any say in the matter, while the boats go down,
I’d like to be on a ladder,
peeking into a loft made narcotic with children,
a dead pool with rolling, living waves. If possible,
I’d like the water to douse the match that’s growing out of the bones of my hand.”
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“What saves and ruins?
(The museum)
What blooms amongst the rocks?
(A ship)
What opens wide and explains why?
(A burning window)
What is ill-advised in the new world?
(What ends at the treeline.
What split like a lip into two less viable possibilities.)
What shimmers on our bodies when we are warm?
(Our historic burning) What lines both the inside of our coats
and the inside of our mouths?
(Our current burning)
What is the real museum?
What is wet and is yet a wick?
(The tongue, which becomes colorless over time.
Which flakes.)”
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(The museum)
What blooms amongst the rocks?
(A ship)
What opens wide and explains why?
(A burning window)
What is ill-advised in the new world?
(What ends at the treeline.
What split like a lip into two less viable possibilities.)
What shimmers on our bodies when we are warm?
(Our historic burning) What lines both the inside of our coats
and the inside of our mouths?
(Our current burning)
What is the real museum?
What is wet and is yet a wick?
(The tongue, which becomes colorless over time.
Which flakes.)”
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Polls
What should we read for the July Graywolf Press Book Club?
13 total votes
“The palm stands on the edge of space.
The wind moves slowly in the branches.
The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down.”
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The wind moves slowly in the branches.
The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down.”
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