Saint Worm: Poems

Saint Worm, Hailey Leithauser's second poetry collection, collects--sometimes warmly, sometime wickedly--glowworm, bookworm, earthworm, and other earthly and unearthly creatures, including human beings. Leithauser's sparklingly inimitable style mates the serious with the playful, yielding a treasury of quirkiness, inventive turns of phrase, wordplay, and expansive diction, making Saint Worm a collection unlike any other.

PRAISE FOR SAINT WORM

Surprise is what I treasure most in my reaction to art, and Hailey Leithauser's Saint Worm surprises. Alternately funny and sad, creepy and comfy, disturbing and insightful, the book demands attention. Quirky as Stevie Smith and smart as Marianne Moore, what you hold in your hands is a masterpiece.
--Spencer Reece

PRAISE FOR HAILEY LEITHAUSER

"Meticulously crafted . . . Leithauser has style to spare, but also substance, and yes, playful, in the best sense of the word, pleasurable and pleasure-seeking . . . This is the trick Leithauser does so well, marrying delightful, silvery rhyme to darker content."--Los Angles Review of Books

"The talent and craft exhibited here is cause for sheer glee . . . Leithauser's agility of expression and biting sense of humor shine through . . . Here's hoping this confident and deft collection will be the first of many from a powerful wordsmith."--Shelf Awareness

". . . In its playfulness, its confections of wordplay . . . Delightful."--Boston Review

"A frantic argument in favor of obvious beauty, of ornament, and of elaborate jokes, as barriers against something like despair."--Publishers Weekly

"Possessed of an unnatural ability with the language, preternatural grace in form, and an extraordinary capacity to be dead serious with killer humor."--Women's Voice for Change

"Hailey Leithauser's intoxicating first collection, understands the physical nature of words and sounds. Her poems bounce along several registers, surprising us with their diction and resulting music . . . Swoop stands out as one of the most interesting books of this past year."--32 Poems

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Hailey Leithauser's debut collection, Swoop, won the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award and the Towson Prize for Literature. Her poems appear in Agni, the Gettysburg Review, Poetry, the Yale Review, and numerous other periodicals, and have been selected three times for The Best American Poetry anthology. She is a recipient of the Discovery/the Nation Prize, the River Styx International Poetry Award, the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award, and two Individual Artist Grants from the Maryland State Arts Council. She lives quite lazily at the edge of a precipitous wooded ravine a few miles north of Washington, DC, and teaches at the West Chester Poetry Conference.

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Saint Worm: Poems

Saint Worm, Hailey Leithauser's second poetry collection, collects--sometimes warmly, sometime wickedly--glowworm, bookworm, earthworm, and other earthly and unearthly creatures, including human beings. Leithauser's sparklingly inimitable style mates the serious with the playful, yielding a treasury of quirkiness, inventive turns of phrase, wordplay, and expansive diction, making Saint Worm a collection unlike any other.

PRAISE FOR SAINT WORM

Surprise is what I treasure most in my reaction to art, and Hailey Leithauser's Saint Worm surprises. Alternately funny and sad, creepy and comfy, disturbing and insightful, the book demands attention. Quirky as Stevie Smith and smart as Marianne Moore, what you hold in your hands is a masterpiece.
--Spencer Reece

PRAISE FOR HAILEY LEITHAUSER

"Meticulously crafted . . . Leithauser has style to spare, but also substance, and yes, playful, in the best sense of the word, pleasurable and pleasure-seeking . . . This is the trick Leithauser does so well, marrying delightful, silvery rhyme to darker content."--Los Angles Review of Books

"The talent and craft exhibited here is cause for sheer glee . . . Leithauser's agility of expression and biting sense of humor shine through . . . Here's hoping this confident and deft collection will be the first of many from a powerful wordsmith."--Shelf Awareness

". . . In its playfulness, its confections of wordplay . . . Delightful."--Boston Review

"A frantic argument in favor of obvious beauty, of ornament, and of elaborate jokes, as barriers against something like despair."--Publishers Weekly

"Possessed of an unnatural ability with the language, preternatural grace in form, and an extraordinary capacity to be dead serious with killer humor."--Women's Voice for Change

"Hailey Leithauser's intoxicating first collection, understands the physical nature of words and sounds. Her poems bounce along several registers, surprising us with their diction and resulting music . . . Swoop stands out as one of the most interesting books of this past year."--32 Poems

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Hailey Leithauser's debut collection, Swoop, won the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award and the Towson Prize for Literature. Her poems appear in Agni, the Gettysburg Review, Poetry, the Yale Review, and numerous other periodicals, and have been selected three times for The Best American Poetry anthology. She is a recipient of the Discovery/the Nation Prize, the River Styx International Poetry Award, the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award, and two Individual Artist Grants from the Maryland State Arts Council. She lives quite lazily at the edge of a precipitous wooded ravine a few miles north of Washington, DC, and teaches at the West Chester Poetry Conference.

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Overview

Saint Worm, Hailey Leithauser's second poetry collection, collects--sometimes warmly, sometime wickedly--glowworm, bookworm, earthworm, and other earthly and unearthly creatures, including human beings. Leithauser's sparklingly inimitable style mates the serious with the playful, yielding a treasury of quirkiness, inventive turns of phrase, wordplay, and expansive diction, making Saint Worm a collection unlike any other.

PRAISE FOR SAINT WORM

Surprise is what I treasure most in my reaction to art, and Hailey Leithauser's Saint Worm surprises. Alternately funny and sad, creepy and comfy, disturbing and insightful, the book demands attention. Quirky as Stevie Smith and smart as Marianne Moore, what you hold in your hands is a masterpiece.
--Spencer Reece

PRAISE FOR HAILEY LEITHAUSER

"Meticulously crafted . . . Leithauser has style to spare, but also substance, and yes, playful, in the best sense of the word, pleasurable and pleasure-seeking . . . This is the trick Leithauser does so well, marrying delightful, silvery rhyme to darker content."--Los Angles Review of Books

"The talent and craft exhibited here is cause for sheer glee . . . Leithauser's agility of expression and biting sense of humor shine through . . . Here's hoping this confident and deft collection will be the first of many from a powerful wordsmith."--Shelf Awareness

". . . In its playfulness, its confections of wordplay . . . Delightful."--Boston Review

"A frantic argument in favor of obvious beauty, of ornament, and of elaborate jokes, as barriers against something like despair."--Publishers Weekly

"Possessed of an unnatural ability with the language, preternatural grace in form, and an extraordinary capacity to be dead serious with killer humor."--Women's Voice for Change

"Hailey Leithauser's intoxicating first collection, understands the physical nature of words and sounds. Her poems bounce along several registers, surprising us with their diction and resulting music . . . Swoop stands out as one of the most interesting books of this past year."--32 Poems

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Hailey Leithauser's debut collection, Swoop, won the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award and the Towson Prize for Literature. Her poems appear in Agni, the Gettysburg Review, Poetry, the Yale Review, and numerous other periodicals, and have been selected three times for The Best American Poetry anthology. She is a recipient of the Discovery/the Nation Prize, the River Styx International Poetry Award, the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award, and two Individual Artist Grants from the Maryland State Arts Council. She lives quite lazily at the edge of a precipitous wooded ravine a few miles north of Washington, DC, and teaches at the West Chester Poetry Conference.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781773490458
Publisher: Able Muse Press
Publication date: 08/27/2019
Pages: 86
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Hailey Leithauser's debut collection, Swoop, won the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award and the Towson Prize for Literature. Her poems appear in Agni, the Gettysburg Review, Poetry, the Yale Review, and numerous other periodicals, and have been selected three times for The Best American Poetry anthology. She is a recipient of the Discovery/the Nation Prize, the River Styx International Poetry Award, the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award, and two Individual Artist Grants from the Maryland State Arts Council. She lives quite lazily at the edge of a precipitous wooded ravine a few miles north of Washington, DC, and teaches at the West Chester Poetry Conference.

Table of Contents

vi Acknowledgments

1 Arrhythmia



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5 Some Small Bone

6 Octopus

7 I Shall Name the Worms

10 Hsss

11 Ouroboros

12 Midnight

13 Rrribbit

14 Bookworm

16 White on White

17 Murder Song

18 In My Last Past Life

19 Slow Danger

20 Glowworm

21 Monster

22 The Pickpocket Song

23 The Hangman’s Song

24 Saint Worm

26 Albino

27 Coronation

28 Tollund

30 Eurydice

31 Mary

33 Angels

34 Sin-Eater Worm

36 The Cannibal’s Song

37 0

38 Message

40 The Distance of Objects

41 Wanderlusts

44 Dumb Luck

45 Crows

46 Fat Worm

48 Moley’s Chair

49 Minnows

50 Poke

51 [Bring me the head]

52 Coy Worm

54 Postmortem Consortium

56 Bedlam Songs

58 Eminent Worm

60 To the North Wind

63 Notes

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