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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2009.
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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.