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The first inhabitants of Arcadia /

"Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold, Sarah Orne Jewett, Dusty Rhodes, and Hoyt Wilhelm skinny-dip and pick up gondoliers and cut figure eights into the ice in Christopher Bursk's new collection. But the main cast of characters for these poems is the alphabet itself, "the first inhabitant...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bursk, Christopher (Autor)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2006.
Colección:University of Arkansas Press poetry series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Learning to read
  • Don't move
  • More investigations into the nature of language
  • The ars poetica of baseball cards
  • Servants
  • Multiple personality disorder
  • F
  • Ode to J
  • Letter l as in reliable, indomitable, chivalrous
  • M-m-m good!
  • Hearing the word for the first time
  • At an early age a boy discovers the pleasures and perils of double o
  • Why a boy is drawn to lowercase p
  • Vocabulary test
  • [actual symbol not reproducible]
  • What a boy knows and doesn't know
  • Dictionary Johnson
  • Working the stacks
  • O in trouble
  • Lycidas
  • Scintillating?
  • F this and F that
  • Small r
  • The CIA tries to dispose of still another mutilated body
  • "Memorize 'dover beach' for Monday."