Copia

 

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Meitner, Erika, 1975–

  [Poems. Selections]

  Copia / by Erika Meitner. — First edition.

       pages ; cm

  ISBN 978-1-938160-46-2 (paperback) — ISBN 978-1-938160-47-9 (ebook)

  I. Title.

  PS3613.E436A6 2014

  811'.6—dc23

C
ONTENTS

• Title Page
  
• Copyright
  

I

1. Litany of Our Radical Engagement with the Material World
   
2. Niagara [White towels . . .]
   
3. Big Box Encounter
   
4. Correspondence
   
5. with/out
   
6. Staking a Claim
   
7. Interrobang
   
8. Niagara [Witness this:]
   
9. Past-Future/Future-Past
   
10. Terra Nullius [When we were done . . .]
    
11. Apologetics
    
12. Retail Space Available
    

II

1. Maple Ridge [It rains and rains . . .]
   
2. untitled [and the moon]
   
3. Yizker Bukh
   
4. And the moon
   
5. Yiddishland
   
6. Inconsequential Alchemy
   
7. Snowpocalypse
   
8. To Whom It May Concern:
   
9. One Version of December
   
10. Wal
    Mart Supercenter
    
11. You return the Torah to the ark
    
12. The Architecture of Memory
    
13. Let the future begin this way:
    
14. Maple Ridge [It is nearly Halloween . . .]
    

III

1. The Book of Dissolution
   
2. Post-Industrialization
   
3. By Other Means
   
4. Ghostbox
   
5. In/exhaustible
   
6. All That Blue Fire
   
7. Outside the Abandoned Packard Plant
   
8. And After the Ark
   
9. The Language of Happiness
   
10. Inside the Frame
    
11. Outside the Frame
    
12. Borderama
    
13. Terra Nullius [The poem in which . . .]
    
14. Cosmogony/Progeny
    
15. Ars Poetica with Radio Apparatus, Toddler, & Ducks
    
16. Porto, Portare, Portavi, Portatus
    

• Notes
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• About the Author
  
• Colophon
  

copia, n.

Pronunciation:

Etymology: Latin; = plenty.

Plenty, a plentiful supply: now chiefly in the Latin phrase
copia verborum,
abundance of words, a copious vocabulary. Also the Roman goddess of wealth or plenty.

a. Plenty, abundance, a copious quantity.

b. Fullness, plenitude. Obs.

c. esp. of language: Copiousness, abundance, fullness, richness.

1713 J. Addison in
Guardian
8 Sept. 1/2 Since they [
sc.
women] have . . .such a
Copia Verborum
, or plenty of Words, 'tis Pity they should not put it to some Use.