I.; It Is Beautiful; Let Me Blindfold You; Edge; Black Iris; Blind Date; White Gold; Blue Curve of Empty Interstate; You; Some Kind of Small Yellow Flower; We Slept Naked; II.; Sublimation; What Happened to Me; Ritalin; They Must Have Crawled in There to Get Warm; Adolescence; Newly Green Fields; Domestic Short hair; Take This Old Coat; Sometimes a Cat Licks a Mouse; Girl Dumped by the River; Driving My Grandmother to Her Husband's Burial; III.; The One Blessed Thing; Perdition; Calling; Nine Planets; Pageant; Portal; Stanzas for My Son; A Mask. and Pulsar over Hoyt-Schermerhorn IV.; Cutting; Quilt; The Grieving; The Rival; Anywhere I'd Want to Be; To My Analyst; Mulberry Street; Acknowledgments.
Summary
"In The Rival, Sara Wallace takes her readers on an intimate journey through a woman's brutal, sexually fraught first marriage and her solitary, surreal rural childhood to the conflicted redemption she finds in motherhood and a second chance at love. In this debut poetry collection, Wallace reveals how closely devastation and transcendence can co-exist. The Rival is sensuous, darkly humorous, and frequently luminous in its unflinching exploration of the inner life"--
