The second O of sorrow : poems / Sean Thomas Dougherty.

Includes bibliographical references.

Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Why Bother?; The Second O of Sorrow; What Do You Say to a Daughter When She Suspects Her Mother Is Dying; My Grief Grows a White Flower; After Surgery; In the Light of One Lamp; The Bravery of Birds; Scribbled on the Scaffolding of; We a New Ledger; Poem Written with a Cough; We Pay the Rent We Breathe; Grief; Triptych of Desire and the Duende; Red Dirt; In the Absence of Others I Wanted Something Brave; Tamir Rice; Tattoos; Parade Street; Youngstown Monologue: Captured Light Stained Glass; You're Good at Going Under; Far from Any Classroom.

Karaoke Night at the Y Not Bar, Carnegie, PAPittsburgh; Psalm of the Working Poor; Toledo, Ohio 1977; In the Midnight Waking; Leaking Light; My Youngest Daughter Brings Me Daisies and Bits of Plastic Trash; Biography of LeBron as Ohio; Poem Made of East Sides; Elegy on the Side of a Milk Carton; Eating Sea Roses in the Afterlife; Down the Line; Our Love as Lead Belly or; You Are Beautiful as the Absence of the Air; Rain, Gas, Boone County, West Virginia; Gertrude Stein Lighthouse Sonnet; DJ Jehovah; Something Lovely as the Rain; Grief 's Familiar Rooms; Acknowledgments; About the Author.

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A lyric narrative that celebrates the struggles, the joys, and the dignity of working-class life in the Rust Belt cities.

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