Table of Contents

An Ant in the Mouth of the Furnace

That’s What the Dead Do

The Dream

The Luxury of Being Depressed

Free Will

The Front of Me is Always On the Dark Side of the Moon

The Doorknob

A Style

Being Mortal Is There Mercy in It?

Pathological Empathy

I Didn’t Know Before

Autophagy Irrespective

Promotional Information

We will seek reviews in major literary and general audience publications that have previously covered Wier’s or James Tate’s books, including Publishers Weekly, Boston Globe, Boston Review, New York Times, New York Review of Books, Poets & Writers, Poetry, and many others.

We will promote the book to Wier’s extensive network of fellow poets and former students who might be interested in selling or assigning the book, drawing on a mailing list we compiled for You Good Thing.

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About the Author

Dara Wier is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including 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). Also among her works are the limited editions (X In Fix) in Rain Taxi’s Brainstorm Series, Fly on the Wall (Oat City Press), and The Lost Epic, co-written with James Tate (Waiting for Godot Books, 1999). 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. She teaches workshops and form and theory seminars and directs the MFA program for poets and writers 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-founded with Emily Pettit and Guy Pettit.