Ebook: The trembling answers: poems

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Every Turning; Self-Portrait Beside Myself; Free; Night Nurse; Tracheotomy; Video Baby Monitor; Centering; The Hairdryer Cord Is All Tangled; Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography (i); Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography (ii); Nest; Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography (iii); Apprehension; Where Am I?; In the Waiting Room; Book Review: The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford; Self-Portrait as the Man I've Become; Letters to Brenda; Which Is the Best Part of the Day?; Low Note; All Elegies; Tomorrow and Tomorrow Again; Another Day; Edgemont.;"An extension of and a departure from previous explorations of family and art, these poems delve boldly into tangled realities of fatherhood, marriage, and poetry. Dealing with the day-to-day of family life--including the alert anxiety and remarkable beauty of caring for a child with cerebral palsy--these personal narratives illuminate the relationship that exists between poetry and a life fiercely lived"--