Elizabeth Skurnick’s “Check-In” was chosen by Jim Daniels as the winning entrant in the 2004 Caketrain Chapbook Competition. The rarest of specimens, Lizzie not only acknowledges but engages an oft-forgotten poetic history of metric and sonic technique, all the while throwing her subjects into an unmistakably modern relief—exposing the heart, then dicing it into sharp and shapely slivers of verse. This expanded edition features a new cover photograph, fourteen new poems, and a foreword by Maureen McLane.
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Barrow Street: “My Husband is the Husband of Five Other Women,” “My Husband is a Broker at Bear, Stearns”; The Delta Review: “Two Women”; The Iowa Review: “My Husband is a State Trooper,” “My Husband is a Dermatologist,” “My Husband Was a Spokesman for the President”; The Ledge: “Six Men Sestina”; The Melic Review: “Chastity in Gomorrah,” “Persephone In Hades”; New Haven Review: “Rake,” “Ring,” “Bill,” “Choose Your Preferences,” “Wait, There’s More,” “Ghazal (Morning),” “Ghazal (Evening),” “Ghazal (Afternoon),” “Hi-Tech Hotel”; The Pinch: “Something New”; Shade: “Grand Central, Track 23,” “Mt. Desert Island,” “Tyringham, 1998,” “Wild Kingdom,” “Tenants,” “Angel Eyes,” “Check-In.” Text Copyright 2005, 2008 Elizabeth Skurnick. Cover image Copyright 2008 Eliot Shepard. Used by permission.