Also by Brenda Hillman
POETRY
White Dress
Fortress
Death Tractates
Bright Existence
Loose Sugar
Cascadia
Pieces of Air in the Epic
Practical Water
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
CHAPBOOKS
Coffee, 3 A.M.
Autumn Sojourn
The Firecage
Four Poets (with Brett Fletcher Lauer, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and Andrew Zawacki)
Her Presence Will Live Beyond Progress
AS EDITOR
The Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (with Patricia Dienstfrey)
Writing the Silences: Selected Poems of Richard O. Moore (with Paul Ebenkamp)
Particulars of Place by Richard O. Moore (with Garrett Caples and Paul Ebenkamp)
AS TRANSLATOR
Instances by Jeonrye Choi (with the author and Wayne de Fremery)
Poems from Above the Hill: Selected Poems of Ashur Etwebi (with the author and Diallah Haidar)
At Your Feet by Ana Cristina Cesar (with Helen Hillman and Sebastião Macedo)
Extra Hidden Life, among the Days
Brenda Hillman
Extra Hidden Life, among the Days
Wesleyan University Press
Middletown, Connecticut
Wesleyan Poetry
Wesleyan University Press
Middletown CT 06459
www.wesleyan.edu/wespress
© 2018 Brenda Hillman
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hillman, Brenda, author.
Title: Extra hidden life, among the days / Brenda Hillman.
Description: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2018]
Series: Wesleyan poetry | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017036431 | ISBN 9780819578051 (cloth : alk. paper)
Classification: LCC PS3558.I4526 A6 2018 | DDC 811/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017036431
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