Too Heavy to Carry

Too Heavy to Carry

by Cat Dixon
Too Heavy to Carry

Too Heavy to Carry

by Cat Dixon

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Overview


People expect that their lives move in majestic sweeps, but that’s only because memory and legend work that way, but reality works in the small moments of our experience. Too Heavy to Carry explores those moments by focusing in close. This wonderful collection aims to name the evils that people live through: loneliness, betrayal, inadequacy, and loss. Dixon easily captures not just the glimpse of hope, but shows the agony and obstacles one must endure before she crawls out of the bottom of the well.
This is a must for survivors of any variety—divorce, depression, domestic violence, abandonment/neglect and other painful experiences.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781622880560
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
Publication date: 03/04/2014
Pages: 88
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range: 15 - 17 Years

About the Author


CAT DIXON is a creative writing instructor at the University of Nebraska in Omaha and an adjunct instructor at Metro Community College, Omaha.

Table of Contents

Bearded Homeless Man Comes to the Unitarian Church Door 11

Matthew 13:33 13

Commiserating With Another Parent 14

Daughters Over Sons 15

Steppe 17

Outcrop 18

The winter moth orbits the light 19

With the Zoologist in the Closed Exhibit 20

Circus Man 21

Black Cat 22

tanstaafl 23

Bearded Swimmer 24

At the Catfish Symposium 25

The Reef 26

Water 28

Butte 29

Hoodoos 30

A Wild Boar Stampedes My House at Night 31

Bird by Bird-She Says She is a Writer! 32

Gully 33

To the Father of My Children 34

Once a Woman 36

formation 37

Black Sting Ray 38

adrenal over heart 39

River 40

"The child I never had." 41

Sunday Afternoon at Mission Park 42

Bathroom Photo 43

Farm 44

On Her Second Birthday 46

After He Leaves the Barn 47

With No Father 48

whip her with hair 50

Chance 51

Attachment 52

Placement 53

For My Papa, Alfonso Alberto Lopez de Nada (Abel) from Tabasco, Zacatecas 54

The Fall of One Unitarian Church 56

Tabula Rasa 57

Eulogy for John Berryman 58

Glacier 59

Acknowledgments 62

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