Distributed for Oberlin College Press
Stubborn
Gallagher’s second book of poems, Stubborn, follows quickly after publication of her first book, This Minute (Fordham), which received the Poets Out Loud Prize. Stubborn won the ninth annual FIELD Poetry Prize. “Readers will not want to put down this book once they have started to encounter it. It shines with power and crackles with excitement.” (David Young)
Table of Contents
STORY IN FIVE ANNUNCIATIONS • Particular Annunciation • Annunciation/Expulsion • Annuncio di morte a Maria • Giacometti’s Cage (Woman and Head) as Annunciation • Annunciation Suspended • A SHORT FILM ABOUT THE NEW MATH • Spin • A Short Film About the New Math • Two Sermons • How Many • Detail of Paradise • CATHERINE CYCLE • Mysterious Communion • Exchange • Her Marriage • Dictation • Stigmata • Her Mother • With the Pope and the College of Cardinals • Her Death • STUBBORN • Front, Central Panel • Slide • Front, Predella • Nativity • Show Me • Lucky • Just a Moment Please • Reverse, Predella • Early Photograph I • Early Photograph II • What Now • Everything You Know About Water • Blind Man Sees • Progressive Simplification at the Well • Apostles’ Dreams I • Big Doors • Reverse, Central Panel • No Place But • Self-Diagnosis • Apostles’ Dream II • Apostles Dream III • Five Views of the Fire • Stubborn • Whatever You Say • Any Idea • Progress • Native • Deposition • Reverse, Crowning Panels • Ten Ways • Past It • Do Me a Favor • Lodging • Front, Crowning Panel (Lost) • Assumption • Notes