20 Love Poems for 10 Months

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Interior pages with text.

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The cover of 20 Love Poems for 10 Months, with dark blue text in a white diamond and a background of horizontal red lines.

In these compressed, weighty poems by Mary Austin Speaker, a deepening romantic relationship finds its echo in the wings of cranes, mushrooms emerging after rain, and a forest floor dense with pine needles. The poems in this chapbook function as indirect metaphors, allowing the relationship itself to stay just off-screen, expansive and mysterious as it might still be to the lovers themselves. 

Mary Austin Speaker. 20 Love Poems for 10 Months. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012.

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Text of poem 7.

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Text of poem 8.

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Text of poem 9.

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Colophon.