Intrusive Beauty. Joseph J. Capista

      

      Intrusive Beauty

      The Hollis Summers Poetry Prize

      GENERAL EDITOR: DAVID SANDERS

      Named after the distinguished poet who taught for many years at Ohio University and made Athens, Ohio, the subject of many of his poems, this competition invites writers to submit unpublished collections of original poems. The competition is open to poets who have not published a book-length collection as well as to those who have.

      Full and updated information is available on the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize web page: ohioswallow.com/poetry_prize

      Meredith Carson, Infinite Morning

      Memye Curtis Tucker, The Watchers

      V. Penelope Pelizzon, Nostos

      Kwame Dawes, Midland

      Allison Eir Jenks, The Palace of Bones

      Robert B. Shaw, Solving for X

      Dan Lechay, The Quarry

      Joshua Mehigan, The Optimist

      Jennifer Rose, Hometown for an Hour

      Ann Hudson, The Armillary Sphere

      Roger Sedarat, Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic

      Jason Gray, Photographing Eden

      Will Wells, Unsettled Accounts

      Stephen Kampa, Cracks in the Invisible

      Nick Norwood, Gravel and Hawk

      Charles Hood, South × South: Poems from Antarctica

      Alison Powell, On the Desire to Levitate

      Shane Seely, The Surface of the Lit World

      Michelle Y. Burke, Animal Purpose

      Michael Shewmaker, Penumbra

      Idris Anderson, Doubtful Harbor

      Joseph J. Capista, Intrusive Beauty

      Intrusive Beauty

       Poems

       Joseph J. Capista

      OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

      ATHENS

      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

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      © 2019 by Joseph J. Capista

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Capista, Joseph J., author.

      Title: Intrusive beauty : poems / Joseph J. Capista.

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2019. | Series: Hollis

      Summers poetry prize

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018056336| ISBN 9780821423769 (paperback) | ISBN 9780821446652 (pdf)

      Subjects: | BISAC: POETRY / General.

      Classification: LCC PS3603.A65 A6 2019 | DDC 811/.6--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018056336

       O, SHANNON

       Contents

       Telescope

       Thaw

       A Child Bird-Scarer

       Weep, You Prophets, in the Shadow of Heaven

       History of the Inevitable

       Domestic Intelligence

       The Beautiful Things of the Earth Become More Dear as They Elude Pursuit

       Exit Wound

       Thirtysomething Blues

       SOWEBO

       Entreaty

       Faces of Death

       40

       Mid-Flight, Mid-Ascension Virgin Photograph

       Cornicello

       Guide to the Monumental City

       Lost Children

       Devotional of Daily Apprehension

       In the Event of a Fire

       Gut-Bomb

       Johnny Salmon’s Father Enters the Shelter Unannounced to Repo His Adjudicated Son

       Vigilante Day Parade

       For a Daughter

       Jellyfish

       Malaprops

       Crossing Guard at Acheron Elementary

       Playboy’s Guide to Lingering