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Adele Elise Williams is the author of Wager, selected by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series, and, with Dana Levin, is a coeditor of Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master. Her critical and creative work explores how gender performances and working-class ecologies engage designations of high and low aesthetics, specifically within confessionally innovative poetics. Williams is an assistant professor of poetry at Missouri State University, teaching in the MFA program, and serves as assistant editor at Conjunctions and Texas Review Press.

I. Invocation Enchantation II. The Filthy Event Holy Mountain The Cruelest Month Midrash While Woman Self-Invasion Love Poem Unloved Among Waters I Want to Hold You Confessions of an Academic Magdalena Sonnet The Speaker Is Hatching Prelapsarian Ode Keeping Tabs Foamy Midrash My Lover, the Moment I First Saw Him Nude, Love Poem Semiotics in Spring Communion III. After the Making Moon Swoon Idolatry for Dummies Quick and Dirty Midrash Dear God, Essay on the Devil Bus Stop Madonna Man-Sized Midrashian Sonnet American Mary Deep South Augury A Poem for Texan Summertime The Light Fantastic Love Poem Funeral Museum Through Possession Geological Fates Art Hag On Dreaming My Own Dream God Hunt IV. Summa Divine Distillation Acknowledgments Notes