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    Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems
    Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems
    Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems
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    Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems

    By Craig Morgan Teicher

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    Winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry
    Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity Press of Colorado
    Release dateJan 15, 2008
    ISBN9781885635143
    Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems
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    Craig Morgan Teicher

    Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of four books of poems: Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey (BOA, 2021); The Trembling Answers (BOA, 2017), which won the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; To Keep Love Blurry (BOA, 2012); and Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems (CLP, 2007), winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry. He also wrote Cradle Book: Stories and Fables (BOA, 2010) and the chapbook Ambivalence and Other Conundrums (Omnidawn, 2014). His first collection of essays, We Begin in Gladness, was published by Graywolf in November, 2018. Teicher edited Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz (New Directions, 2016) and serves as a poetry editor for The Literary Review. He writes about books for many publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The LA Times, and NPR. He worked for many years at Publishers Weekly and is now Digital Director of The Paris Review. He is a 2021 recipient of a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and children.

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      Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems - Craig Morgan Teicher

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      1 A New Room

      VOICE

      Inaudible voice, silent voice,

      voice in my head, voice of my head,

      speaker of my thoughts, speaker

      of thoughts I do not think but hear

      in my thoughts when I am thinking,

      voice of my brother, I have no brother,

      tell me what I should do, tell me

      I should not listen to you, if only

      they could hear you, may they

      never hear you, voice of my dead,

      my child voice calling into the hallway

      for comfort no one gets anymore,

      though no one forgets, my dark

      voice who lies with me every night

      keeping me awake until you’ve

      worried your words to sleep,

      come here, sick voice, stern, pathetic

      voice of my father, voice that tells

      stories over and over, how does

      hurting me protect me, sweet, worried

      voice of my mother, voice that repeats

      until words have no meaning, voice

      that rehearses every word, cruel voice,

      come here, only stories end, which are

      words flocking to other words

      like blood cells to wounds, come here.

      A THING DEFINED

      There is no such thing as a happy

      person. The hour has come

      for generalizations, meaning

      falsehoods winningly articulated.

      Person: to stand in the way of

      something happening naturally.

      Happiness: the metal thing

      in a car that goes in and

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