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    Orphanotrophia
    Orphanotrophia
    Orphanotrophia
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    Orphanotrophia

    By Andrew Kozma

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    Winner of the +GAMMA RAYS Book Prize


    "Orphanotrophia is a record of Andrew Kozma's stellar ability to write unforgettable images that seem to sing off the page through rhymes so subtle they echo through to the final line and after. Reading each page reminds us that the role of the poet is being sure not to miss the beauty of th

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCobalt Press
    Release dateOct 19, 2021
    ISBN9781941462225
    Orphanotrophia
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    Andrew Kozma

    Andrew Kozma received an M.F.A. from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. His poems have appeared in Blackbird, The Believer, Redactions, and Bennington Review. and his stories have been published in Analog and Escape Pod. His first book of poems, City of Regret, was chosen by Richard Jackson for the Zone 3 First Book Award and was published in 2007. At long last, he now considers himself a Texan.

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      Orphanotrophia - Andrew Kozma

      ORPHANOTROPHIA

      poems by

      ANDREW KOZMA

      For my mother, Judith Dicus, and my brother, Jason Kozma

      Orphanotrophia

      Copyright © 2021

      Cover and book design by Andrew Keating

      Paperback ISBN: 9781941462201

      eBook ISBN: 9781941462225

      Cobalt Press | Cobalt Review

      Denver, Colorado

      cobaltreview.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in review, without written permission from the author/publisher.

      For all inquiries, including requests for additional materials, please contact cobalt@cobaltreview.com.

      PART ONE

      Song of the Traveler

      Ode to the Common Housefly

      Six Years Later, the Memory of the Raw Fish Cubes Continued to Haunt Her

      Ode to the Parasitic Wasp

      Ode to the Soft Tick

      Song of the Reenactor

      This is Not Our Day

      Song of the Self-Righteous

      Song of the Migrained

      Song of the Psychopath

      Cigarette Burns

      PART TWO

      Song of the Single-Minded

      Every Snowflake Will Have Its Own Name

      Elvis

      Song of the Forecloser

      Song of the Ghost Hunter

      The Ward

      Ode to the Cinnamon-Covered Waxworm

      Ode to the Love Bug

      Song of the Starving

      Ode to the Male Honeybee

      Ode to the Dying Moth

      Our Trash and the Trash of Others

      Nutrient Cycling Through the Biomass

      As He Had No Issue, the Title Became Extinct on His Death

      Song of the Suicide

      Starman

      PART THREE

      Pulgas Vestidas

      Into a Mode of Excess

      The Boxing Match

      Body Bags

      Pro-Life

      Agnolo the Fat, Agnolo the Lucky

      Song of the Calling Back

      Song of the Skydiver

      Tried and Failed

      Song of the Surveyor

      Song of the Coming to Terms With It

      PART FOUR

      Karen Greenlee

      Orphanotrophia

      Song of the Blind

      Ode to the Molting Cicada

      Dark Star (Director’s Cut)

      Ghosts of Mars

      Heaven and Earth

      Ode to the Pipevine Swallowtail

      Angel Heart

      Ode to the Laboratory Fruit Fly

      The Thing

      Sarah Winchester

      …and doth not all to go so strangely with familiar pain in the old way?

      {William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land}

      …and doth not all to go so strangely with familiar pain in the old way?

      {William Hope

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