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Something has to happen next /

The poems in something has to happen next, if given the chance, might peer down inquisitively from a great height; they speak of quietness, namelessness, the reachlessness of love, the fortune of animals and their silence, apocalypse, abandonment, beginnings, and endings.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robin, Andrew, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2009.
Colección:Iowa poetry prize.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dear wild abandon: Dear wild abandon,
  • We are not birds
  • Explain yourself
  • Among the beautiful illusions
  • Poem written on the mirror of her skin
  • Dear man on fire,
  • Tragic figure in a rearview
  • Moon
  • what I know of the moon
  • Strip mall
  • Birds of paradise
  • Before sleep takes us
  • Swallows built their nest around it
  • When we were giant
  • Again I strike your window in full flight
  • Dear artificial heart,
  • Pledge of allegiance
  • Face of Jesus in my bite bruise
  • Laundromat at the end of the world
  • Dear special theory or relativity,
  • You can hear it throught the cumulative heartbeats
  • You never touched me
  • they molt in hopes of airier plumage
  • Dear quark,
  • Prove you wrong
  • End
  • Dear catastrophe.
  • Something has to happen next: Rehearsal
  • This or something like it
  • Cyclist passes with a cello on his back
  • Lamb
  • Story of my beard
  • Other people's machines
  • Winter museum
  • What we know
  • Moments before the crash landing are clearest
  • Serendipity
  • Safe shower
  • Stalactite
  • Somewhere a buried bone awaits
  • For the dispossessed
  • In the night of the wob the spirit quickens into flesh
  • Coyotes
  • Chosen
  • World,
  • Levitator's apprentice
  • Man of the year
  • California
  • If nothing else
  • Listen
  • I'll pack a pretty shirt.