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The poems in Plasma, Bradley Paul's third book, use common objects, animals, people, and experiences as starting points to consider one's connectivity to the world. Riddles and obituaries alternate with rants and memories of things that never existed or that the speaker has never seen -- o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Paul, Bradley (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Colección:Pitt poetry series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; I. Moments of Intrigue in Language Acquisition; A Fairly Small Patch of Lawn; Drought; The Boy of Me; False Cognates; Palimpsest; Hack; Everyone's So Smart and Funny; Postmortem; The Landscape Gallery Is the Gallery Everyone Skips; My Son Says He Is Making an Animal; Current; The City of Black Currants; II. Eleven Questions on the Deaths of Animals; What Kind of Vampire Are You?; What Kind of Reply Are You?; What Kind of Emperor Are You?; What Kind of Second Are You?; What Kind of Migratory Bird Are You?; What Kind of Psychic Soccer Octopus Are You? 1
  • What Kind of Psychic Soccer Octopus Are You? 2What Kind of Decay Are You?; What Kind of Suspension Are You?; What Kind of Childish Fantasy Are You?; What Kind of Groundcover Are You?; What Kind of Meteorology Are You?; What Kind of Person Were You?; III. Obituaries and Other Pastimes; Office; Wide Is the Gate, Narrow the Way; Samuel Beckett Driving Andre the Giant to School; This and Every Election; Nuisance Crime; Shut Up, Poem; Bone Graft; Victorian Death Photograph; The Light on My Arm; I Saw a Highway Sign in Ohio; Noir; The Depths of Our Stupidity; I Want to Think but the TV's On
  • DeliberationCold Read; Postcard from Hell; Uncirculated 1913 Nickel; Sundial; A Reliable Oblivion; Donation Box; Mysterious Orphan Appears on Page 30. Possessed or Just Insane?; To an EMT in Spring; Opening Lines for a Potentially Wonderful Novel; Bedtime Story; Archaeological Record; Increments of Leaving; There Is Always in Milk a Skin; Disclosures for the Home I'm Selling; Acknowledgments