The city she was : poems / Carmen Giménez Smith.

Includes bibliographical references.

CONTENTS -- ONE -- For About Five Minutes in the Aughts -- Pills -- The Walk -- Vita -- Museum of Lost Acquaintance -- The City She Was -- Bleeding Heart -- Division -- TWO -- The Science of Parting -- Beauty Regimen -- The Grand Tour -- Pageant of Scrutiny -- The Skeptic -- In-Between Elegy -- The Endangered You -- Stockholm Syndrome -- Lunatics on My Avenue -- Let Down My Bucket -- Bay Bridge Abstraction -- The If of Omission -- Civilizing Mission -- Smaller, Quieter -- Red Baroness -- THREE -- Mistakes Were Made

My Fire and Fever FussySoft Power -- Ars Amatoria -- The Terms -- Don�t Get Out Much Anymore -- Rival -- My Open Sesame -- Redaction -- Under a Wan Sun -- Malaprops -- Sometimes There�s a Virgin -- These Halting Plaints -- Don�t I Disappear -- My Hegemony -- Anodyne -- To My Book -- Notes -- Acknowledgments

""When you open this book, expect serious role-playing and syntactic tap dancing. The City She Was presents a world that brings 'the horizon line into your lexicon' and a poet's muse ('The Endangered You') is lent to a friend and returned 'a little more frayed.' Giménez Smith muddles and enchants with her many masks, leaving the ground a little less stable under our feet."" -Matthea Harvey, author of Modern Life, Sad Little Breathing Machine, and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form.

English.

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