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Requiem for the orchard /
These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place where the Ferris Wheel/ was the tallest thing in the valley, where a boy would learn to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck/ with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel. Looking back, the p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Akron, Ohio :
University of Akron Press,
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Akron series in poetry.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover ""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents ""; ""Dedication ""; ""In Defense of Small Towns""; ""Part I ""; ""Requiem ""; ""At the Time of My Birth ""; ""Ablation as the Creation of Adam ""; ""Self-Portrait as the Burning Plains of Eastern Oregon ""; ""Sticks and Stones ""; ""Self-Portrait with a Spillway ""; ""The Poet at Ten ""; ""Requiem ""; ""Self-Portrait with Taxidermy ""; ""How I Learned Quiet ""; ""Insomnia as Transfiguration ""; ""Cussing in the Playground ""; ""Self-Portrait in My Mother�s Shoes ""; ""Requiem ""; ""Eschatology through a Confluence of Trees ""
- At the Time of My Young Adulthood Self-Portrait beside a Dead Chestnut Horse
- Self-Portrait with Schlitz, a Pickup, and the Snake River
- By Addition
- Highway Towns
- Last Days
- Eschatology on Interstate 84 at 70 mph
- Self-Portrait with a Car Crash
- Requiem
- No One Sleeps through the Night
- Part II
- Autumn Scene as Lullaby
- How I Learned Bliss
- Self-Portrait on Good Friday as an Altar Boy
- Once, Love, I Broke a Window
- Meditation with Smoke and Flowers
- Requiem
- ""Self-Portrait Descending Slowly into the Atlantic """"At the Time of My Death ""; ""Instead, I�m Here to Tell You Very Softly ""; ""How I Learned the Obvious ""; ""Requiem ""; ""Television as a Tool for Remission ""; ""How You Came About in the World Bewilders Me as a Cherry Tree Flowering ""; ""If, Given ""; ""Self-Portrait as a Small Town ""; ""Autumn Song in Four Variations ""; ""Ghost Hunting as Physiography ""; ""Requiem ""; ""Eschatology in Five Acres ""; ""Self-Portrait as a Series of Non-Sequential Lessons ""; ""The Boy with the Fiddle in a Crowded Square ""
- ""Colony Collapse Disorder in Honey Bees as Eschatology """"Prayer for What Won�t Happen ""; ""The Surgical Theater as Spirit Cabinet ""; ""By Subtraction ""; ""Requiem ""; ""Self-Portrait with What Remains ""; ""Acknowledgments ""