With wry humor and unflinching honesty, Cathy Colman crosses the terrain of love, family, and art, asking why we resist becoming the person we truly are.   Acrostic At Dinner Against History Annunciation Borrowed Dress Breaking And Entering Carp Chinese Takeout Dark Painting Deliverance How To Impermanence In Orange Just Add Water Life Drawing Mistress Newton's Law Nostalgia Of The Infinite Nothing Out Of Order: 1. Late Spring Out Of Order: 2. Still Life With Pyramid Out Of Order: 3. Embellished Table Out Of Order: 4. Declension Out Of Order: 5. Night Swim, 1974 Paradoxical Undressing The Passion Pyro Reasons Not To Have You The Search For Meaning In The Backyard Seeds Sleep The Sybil To Heidelberg Translating The Future Virtu The Voice When I'm Dead Zygote -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® "Vivid, thoughtful, scorching-Borrowed Dress speaks back to our impermanence, to the wistfulness of the past and the amnesia of the future, to the dual treasons of speech and silence, to the spaces between lovers, to the nothingness that keeps peeking through everything. Watch out, this passionate book flames in your hands and burns with a radiant light."-Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry Cathy Colman lives in Pacific Palisades, California. She has won the Browning and Ascher Montandon awards for poetry. This is her first book.