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Cardinal points : poems /

Strung throughout the book are poems based on the Scottish photographer Eadwaerd Muybridge's Animal Locomotion, a historic photographic document. Pettit uses these pioneering images as the basis for his poetic dreaming, and the result is a poignant, integrated sequence of highly moving poems, s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pettit, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1988.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Iowa poetry prize.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Woman jumping from rock to rock
  • Sunday stroll
  • Evening on a Canadian lake
  • Pavlov's dog
  • So long, Tuscaloosa
  • The flight path
  • Man performing back somersault
  • Men wrestling
  • No birds
  • Sparrow of española
  • The uncompahgre range
  • Many Buddhists
  • Mighty Sebastian Bach
  • Los Alamos rush hour
  • Sparrow Rousant
  • The beyond
  • Elderly man lifting log
  • Woman turning and lifting train
  • Driving lesson
  • Virginia evening
  • Home again
  • Louisiana new year
  • National geographic
  • Woman emptying bucket of water on seated companion
  • Man walking downstairs backwards, turning, walking away while carrying rock
  • Willows
  • Astral life
  • Valentine show at the lingerie shop
  • Petting zoo
  • March thaw
  • House move
  • Legless boy climbing in and out of chair
  • Man shadowboxing
  • Bad back
  • The fox hunt
  • Furnace without end
  • Boat-tailed grackles
  • Footsteps
  • Star route, box 2
  • Full cry
  • Girl walking towards woman, carrying flower
  • Cardinal points.