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2018

Format:	Book
Author:	St. Germain, Sheryl, author.
Title:	The small door of your death : poems / Sheryl St. Germain.
Publisher, Date:	Pittsburgh : Autumn House Press, [2018]
Description:	viii, 89 pages : portraits ; 23 cm portrait
Subjects:	Mothers and sons -- Poetry. Drug addiction -- Poetry. Sons -- Death -- Poetry. Grief -- Poetry. Loss (Psychology) -- Poetry. American poetry -- 21st century.
Other Title:	Poems. Selections
LCCN:	2017951940
ISBN:	9781938769276 1938769279
Other Number:	1008766357
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This honest and haunting collection of poems by Sheryl St. Germain follows the loss of the poet's only son to heroin addiction. St. Germain takes us through the stages of her grief and offers no false promises or simple answers. These narrative-driven poems are a compelling and compassionate look into addiction and the effect it has on a family.

Table of Contents

1
	Loving an Addict	p. 5
	Son Poem	p. 6
	Louisiana Oranges	p. 7
	The Good Mother	p. 8
	Suit of Swords	p. 9
	Christmas, 2013	p. 10
	Three of Swords	p. 11
	The Rhetoric of Wrecks	p. 12
	Nine of Swords	p. 13
	A Perfect Game	p. 14
	Minus Ten Degrees	p. 16
	Knight of Swords	p. 17
	At a Writer's Retreat in France, Not Drinking	p. 18
	Letter to My Son, Winter	p. 20
	[I sleep]	p. 21
	Ten of Swords	p. 22
	Feral	p. 23
2
	Rehab	p. 27
	Crook	p. 28
	Seven of Swords	p. 29
	Great Midwest Flood, 1993	p. 30
	Ode to Needles	p. 31
	Lotus-Eaters	p. 33
	Ace of Swords	p. 34
	Eight of Swords	p. 35
	After Dinner, He Walks Outside and I Imagine What He's Thinking	p. 36
	Facebook Post: Three Weeks Before He Dies	p. 37
	Eight of Swords	p. 38
	[it comes down to this]	p. 39
	Two of Swords	p. 43
3
	Benediction: A Suite	p. 47
4
	Viewing the Body	p. 53
	[there were signs everywhere]	p. 54
	Overdose: What They Say to Comfort Mothers	p. 55
	In a Church Two Weeks After Your Death	p. 56
	The Drop	p. 57
	We Call Them Ashes	p. 58
	The Grief Committee	p. 59
	First Snow	p. 60
	The Drug-Pusher Friend Speaks	p. 61
	Less a Song Than a Compilation of Beats	p. 62
5
	Canal in Amsterdam	p. 67
	Windmills	p. 68
	Four of Swords	p. 69
	Black Mountain, France	p. 70
	Summer Solstice, 2015	p. 71
	Old Fish	p. 72
	On a Trail in the Languedoc	p. 73
	Versions of Heaven	p. 74
	The Truth Is	p. 81
	Reasons to Live: The Color Red	p. 82
	At the Keukenhof	p. 83
	Prayer for a Son	p. 85
	Notes & Acknowledgments	p. 88

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