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The world is on fire : scrap, treasure, and songs of apocalypse /

"Grappling with a fear rooted in her by the end times sermons of her Southern youth, Joni Tevis seeks out apocalypse, destruction, and their aftermath in this heart-wrenching, but ultimately triumphant collection. Mining sources as disparate as the Bible and nuclear history, Tevis couples seemi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tevis, Joni (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • OVERTURE; What Looks Like Mad Disorder: The Sarah Winchester House; ACT ONE; Damn Cold in February: Buddy Holly, View-Master, and the A-Bomb; Beautiful Beyond Belief: Rock City and Other Fairy Talesof the Atomic Age; Ten Years You Own It; Backstage with John the Beloved Disciple; Something Like the Fire; The Measure of My Days (Buddy Holly Reprise); ACT TWO; The Lay of the Land; Warp and Weft; Brain Sweat and Blueprints; Coathook in an Empty Schoolhouse; The Scissorman; We All Drink from that Fiery Spring (Ode to Heavy Industry); Hammer Price (Song of the Auctioneer).
  • Pacing the Siege FloorINTERMISSION; Girl Power: Ode to the Demolition Derby; ACT THREE; What the Body Knows; The World Is On Fire: Cave of the Apocalypse; Touch the Bones; Somebody to Love; FINALE; Some Memory of Daylight; NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.