Jennifer Militello is the poet laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the memoir Knock Wood and five collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Pact. Militello’s work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, and Poetry Wales. Her poem “Mansplaining” is recited by high school students across the nation each year as part of the Poetry Out Loud national arts education program. She has taught at Brown University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently a faculty member in the MFA program at New England College.

"Militello’s language…is largely an exquisite example of the modern gothic: shadowy, beset by menacing weather and violent feelings, and positively bewitching."

• Contentsi. Anna Morandi Manzolini+the influence of vision on the mind the lab the bodyphiltrumpericardiumsinus post script the lab +Wax Self-PortraitWax Portrait of a HusbandWax Portrait of a MarriageAutopsy Report +the bodycell bone mortality the body traits/the eye +The Ten Commandments of the Anatomist’s WifeWax Portrait of a HusbandWax Portrait of a CadaverAutopsy Report+ visiontravelthe bodymicroscope slideblood/leukemiarespirationbloodii. Anna Morandi Manzolini+the lab the lab in the lab/ill identifying the pathogen musculoskeletal physiognomy +Wax Self-PortraitWax Portrait of a HusbandAutopsy Report+ blood/heart blood genetics/the cell/reproduction/asexual landscape with fossils/diatoms/day with the lab spring/bloomings/foliage/flora scales +Wax Self-PortraitWax Portrait of a CadaverWax Portrait of a CadaverAutopsy Report+ time/day: transmutations mortality open season the lab vivisection iii. Anna Morandi Manzolini +time/lab s(k)in(s) corollaries the lab time/day: transmutations +Wax Portrait of Husband as Male AnglerfishWax Portrait of a MarriageWax Portrait of a Cadaver+ blood pestilent tether/garroted frenzy/anaerobic ferment eye/vision mind the body radar eve +Wax Portrait of a SonWax Portrait+ the labspecimen slide brain vivisection the lab the circle museum +Anna Morandi Manzolininotes & acknowledgments 132