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# 11 Poems by Amanda Nadelberg
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/11-poems-by-amanda-nadelberg/
- Published: 2018-01-31T11:52:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:25:35.000Z
- Description: Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected 11 poems by Amanda Nadelberg for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
- Author: Wendy Xu
- Tags: Poetry, Hyperallergic Poetry, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

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Louise Bourgeois, “Lullaby” (detail) (2006), series of 25 screenprints on fabric, installation view at the Museum of Modern Art (photo by Elisa Wouk Almino/Hyperallergic)

## Esther or Not

To be under a wave

of white sod

half stars half flowers

## Beauregard

When I play tennis

I’m a menace

## Lid on Mars

To make meaning

in the open mode

operate the

sentence switch

## Post No Bills

Maybe if I throw

more bread down

the birds will come

## There Is Nothing to Save

Man was inconsistent

for an animal

One door opened

and daycare fell out and

I’d prefer if someone

took this cup away from

me

## When Flashing Help Is on the Way

I could have called

this “Forest Ethics”

## Friday Morning FiDi

Sometimes I imagine

everyone leaving

Walgreen’s is

buying Plan B

## Awful Museum

Hair as time

## Sea Call Farm

We climb the hill from our panic years ago

## Microclimates of Grief

I got you a cake

Go fuck yourself

## Another Green World

To have instead the stars the

weather acquits some trees

you said “for your sake” and I

preserved the worst discrepancies

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Amanda Nadelberg is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, [*Songs from a Mountain*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AFE4T9S/?tag=hyperallergic-20&ref=hyperallergic.com) (Coffee House, 2016). She lives in Oakland.