Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina

Dara Barrois/Dixon (formerly Dara Wier) is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including In the Still of the Night (Wave Books, 2017), You Good Thing (Wave Books, 2013), Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2009), Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006), Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005, 2006 SFSU Poetry Center Book Award), Hat On a Pond (Verse Press, 2002), and Voyages in English (Carnegie Mellon, 2001). Her poetry has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the American Poetry Review. In 2005 she held the Rubin Distinguished Chair at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.She teaches workshops and form and theory seminars at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and co-directs the University of Massachusetts’ Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action. Each June she teaches a poetry workshop for the Juniper Summer Institute. Her editing work includes publishing limited edition chapbooks and broadsides with Factory Hollow Press, North Amherst, Massachusetts, a small independent press she co-edits with Emily Pettit and Guy Pettit. Along with James Haug and James Tate she has edited the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Series for poetry.

• ContentsPart OneIf You Are LuckyBeing Nervous Is Only HumanTakingSunset’s SexComesWhere Inanimate Objects Have the Sturdiness of Intoxication Momentarily EvanescedTelepathic KinesisPart TwoThings Art Can Do, Part One and Part TwoSimile for Its Own SakePerfect Imitation of Something FamiliarThruCapitalismWaitingDuring the Time You Are DeceasedA Few of the Crimes You’ve Committed Against My HeartPart ThreeWanderlust, Heartache, Nostalgia, Burning DesireTrance of SorrowDusty Rabbits in Cosmos BordersI Feel Sorry for You Someone Said to Me Over and Over AgainThis Is What There IsI Have a Little Extra MercyTolstoy Killed Anna KareninaNotes & EvidenceAcknowledgments