The Analyst
Poems
4 September 2018
Territory Rights — Worldwide excluding Canada.
Description
“[Peacock’s] psychoanalyst is the inspiration for an intimate new collection… [A] bittersweet pleasure.”— O, The Oprah Magazine
When a psychoanalyst became a painter after surviving a stroke, her longtime patient, distinguished and beloved poet Molly Peacock, took up a unique task. The Analyst is a new, visceral, twenty-first century “in memoriam” of ambiguous loss in which Peacock brilliantly tells the story of a decades-long patient-therapist relationship that now reverses and continues to evolve. Peacock invigorates the notion of poetry as word-painting: A tapestry of images, from a red enamelled steamer on a black stove to Tibetan monks funneling glowing sand into a painting, create the backdrop for her quest to define identity.
Reviews
"Whatever the subject, rich music follows the tap of Molly Peacock’s baton." — The Washington Post
Also By: Molly Peacock 
The Widow's Crayon Box: Poems
Paperback, 2026
A book-length sequence of poems that dares to affirm the vast variety of emotional colours in loss and rejuvenation
The Widow's Crayon Box: Poems
Hardback, 2025
A book-length sequence of poems that dares to affirm the vast variety of emotional colors in loss and rejuvenation.
The Second Blush: Poems
Paperback, 2010
“Peacock is in peak form in these seductive poems that swing and twirl . . . valiant, trenchant, funny, and on point.”—Booklist
The Second Blush: Poems
E Book, 2008
Acclaimed poet Molly Peacock tracks the vicissitudes of midlife marriage in her saucy, vulnerable, philosophical sixth collection.
Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems
Paperback, 2004
"Molly Peacock's precision in Cornucopia makes each moment ignite with bounteous pleasures."—Yusef Komunyakaa
