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Thieves' Latin : poems /

"Ah, writ happens." Like the con men who rely on thieves' Latin to ply their trade, the poems in Peter Jay Shippy's award-winning collection don't play well with other poems. They are difficult. They rave. They are unsettling and blunt. They crash cars and ride tsunamis and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shippy, Peter Jay, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003.
Colección:Iowa poetry prize.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • America, USA
  • Part One
  • The Special People
  • Crocodiles Shed Their Tears When Devouring Francis Bacon
  • Why Is the Crow a Harmful Bird?
  • Stars by Children
  • When Alice Coltrane Calls
  • Transgenic Laureate
  • Ether Talk
  • Two Stans Eat
  • M axEr nst
  • Bunnyman, an Elegy
  • No One Understands Who I Really Am So I Will Wear Copper Cladding, Oxidize, Turn Green and Blend in with the Trees
  • Reykjavik
  • Me My Dog and Our Pornography
  • The Skidding of Tottie Coughdrop
  • Flying on Instruments
  • Weathercast
  • Part Two
  • Was Postmodern
  • Ack-Ack
  • Nauman's PsalmBook
  • The Bowling Pin Forest
  • Buzzcocked
  • Sehnsucht
  • Awfrgawdsakes
  • Niagara, Niagara
  • Eskimo Is Lucien
  • Walking with Planck
  • What Is an Antidote?
  • Novemberite
  • Dik-Dik
  • Alack
  • Fink
  • Not the Kind of Poem Found in the Japanese Edition of Tiger Beat or the Ballad of the Bodiless Man
  • Alien Immigrant
  • Crack
  • Part Three
  • Little Poe Station
  • America: Before the Last War
  • Dogs Resembling Their Owners
  • Caught between the Twisted Stars
  • Portrait of God on Work Release
  • It Ain't Boasting If ...
  • Mandelstam Space Station Down
  • The Baudelaire Hospital & Grill
  • Me I Disconnect from You
  • Earth Is a Lonely Town
  • Architecture and Morality
  • Page One Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty-Nine
  • Finally We Are No One
  • Inhaler.