Born and raised in Nebraska. Terese Svoboda graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BFA in fine arts and creative writing and Columbia University with an MFA in poetry. After traveling around the world working in visual anthropology, she worked as a producer on a five-part film series at Columbia's Translation Center and then a thirteen-part series for PBS on American poetry. Author of seven books of poetry, translation and fiction, her work has appeared in such magazines as The Paris Review, The New Yorker, APR, Vogue, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and The Wall St. Journal. Her poetry videos have been exhibited at such venues as the Museum of Modern Art and PBS worldwide. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, The New School, University of Hawaii, Williams College, San Francisco State College, the College of William and Mary and Fairleigh Dickinson University. She lives with her husband and children in New York City
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p. 1
Bridge, Mother
p. 5
Statues of Women That Are Neither Angels nor Allegory
p. 6
Harpies
p. 8
Eurydice Abandoned in the Caves of Hades
p. 9
Cosmo Dog
p. 10
Sharon
p. 11
New Girl
p. 12
Up in Flames
p. 14
The Morning Light and Its Rings
p. 15
Night Bird
p. 16
Tsvetayeva
p. 17
Woman with God
p. 18
Parents
p. 22
Treason
p. 23
A Column of Whiteness
p. 27
Crucifixion
p. 29
Khartoum Light
p. 31
Ghost House
p. 32
No Picnic
p. 33
At The Castle
p. 34
Discovery
p. 36
Extremist
p. 37
Money Can't Fix It
p. 38
When the Next Big War Blows Down the Valley
p. 39
Report from High School
p. 40
Driving L.A.
p. 41
The Listener Goes to Water
p. 45
Red Fox in Series
p. 46
Flesh or Fetish
p. 48
The Cynic's Post
p. 49
The Answers
p. 51
Drink Beer until You're Handsome
p. 52
The High Cost of Principle
p. 53
The Comfort of TV
p. 54
The Unconscious
p. 55
Peacocked
p. 56
The Horse in the Garden
p. 57
The Plants Revolve
p. 58
Curse the Fish into Wishing
p. 60
Signal
p. 61
Mr. Magneto
p. 65
On the Blown Marquee: Hurricane
p. 67
Who Goes with Whom?
p. 68
Marriage Boat
p. 69
The Silence of the Tortoise
p. 70
Aubade
p. 71
Nipple
p. 72
The Nickel Wife
p. 73
Belles Lettres
p. 74
The Common Good
p. 75
Endymion
p. 76
Fitting In
p. 77
At What Cost
p. 78
Pornography Is Good
p. 79
Rock Polisher
p. 80
Gone Wave
p. 81
No Spring
p. 82
Sex and Class and Race
p. 83
Release the Gifts
p. 85
Longing to Stop Longing
p. 86
Bridges and Air
p. 87
Pilgrim's Progress
p. 91
Sister Love
p. 92
Death Stayed
p. 93
Duet
p. 94
Land's Cape
p. 95
Root Canal As a Venetian Idyll
p. 96
Anticipating Grief
p. 97
How to Simplify Fractions
p. 98
The Rule of K
p. 99
Mother Bleeds from the Mouth
p. 101
Old God
p. 102
Agrarian Myth
p. 103
Great Circle Earthworks, Ohio
p. 104
Destiny Manifest
p. 105
Healing Wind
p. 106
Bacchae
p. 107
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