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Gnawed Bones /
Peggy Shumaker's sixth full-length collection, "Gnawed Bones," is perhaps her finest. Shumaker covers a wide range--but she casts a far more personal eye, worrying at the puzzle of human relationships as well as human connection to the land itself.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Los Angeles, CA :
Red Hen Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. July twilight on the Chena. July twilight on the Chena
- What we get used to
- Sea change
- Snapshot
- Polished table
- Deliverance
- Pheasant
- Gnawed bones
- Nests, an elegy
- Smoke
- When the ground cannot take in more rain
- Night drive
- Night watch
- As war goes on
- Bugler, Ft. Wainwright, Alaska
- Dive, three definitions
- II. Mystery aisle. The provider
- Desert odyssey
- Touch and go
- Always the entertainer
- Rinsing that tomato
- You're here
- Chickens
- Swallows
- Ha ha ha
- No sign
- My father never
- Beyond words, this language
- Radio control
- No one knows how to speak
- Albóndigas
- Portal
- III. Mother of sorrows. Land fraud nosebleed
- Desert climbing
- Better homes
- Go to the broom closet and pick out a stick
- Horny toads
- Asthma
- Our mother of sorrows
- Sky of souls
- Upset woman
- You should know better
- Glyphs on a limestone stela
- All the mustaches on all the Judases
- The aroma of rain in the desert
- Mango
- Ocotillo
- Norwegian wood
- Mother tongue
- The painting I didn't buy
- IV. Naming what we hold in our hand. Wilderness
- Pale woman on stretcher
- What next
- A brief aside
- Narrow roads to/from the interior
- Missing
- Strokes
- Lapse
- Hard stick
- Spleen
- Shower
- Good sign
- Naming what we hold in our hand
- Kus-sun-ar
- Oatmeal
- In praise, ephemera
- Chatanika
- Long before we got here, long after we're gone.