Craig Morgan Teicher 
The Trembling Answers 

WINNER OF THE 2018 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE

An extension of and a departure from previous explorations of family and art, these poems delve boldly into tangled realities of fatherhood, marriage, and poetry. Dealing with the day-to-day of family life—including the alert anxiety and remarkable beauty of caring for a child with cerebral palsy—these personal narratives illuminate the relationship that exists between poetry and a life fiercely lived.

قائمة المحتويات

ONE


Every Turning

Self-Portrait Beside Myself

Free

Night Nurse

Tracheotomy

Video Baby Monitor

Centering

The Hairdryer Chord is All Tangled

Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography


TWO


Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography

Nest

Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography

Apprehension

Where Am I?

In the Waiting Room


THREE


Book Review: The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford


FOUR


Self-Portrait As the Man I’ve Become

Letters to Brenda

Which Is the Best Part of the Day?

Low Note

All Elegies

Tomorrow and Tomorrow Again

Edgemont

Gnostic

Another Poem on my Daughter’s Birthday

عن المؤلف

Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of four books of poems: Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey (BOA, 2021); The Trembling Answers (BOA, 2017), which won the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; To Keep Love Blurry (BOA, 2012); and Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems (CLP, 2007), winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry. He also wrote Cradle Book: Stories and Fables (BOA, 2010) and the chapbook Ambivalence and Other Conundrums (Omnidawn, 2014). His first collection of essays, We Begin in Gladness, was published by Graywolf in November, 2018.

Teicher edited Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz (New Directions, 2016) and serves as a poetry editor for The Literary Review. He writes about books for many publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The LA Times, and NPR. He worked for many years at Publishers Weekly and is now Digital Director of The Paris Review. He is a 2021 recipient of a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and children.