Waterlines : Poems /
"In Waterlines, Louisiana native Alison Pelegrin gives us poems that describe the terrible power of nature even as they underscore the state#x19;s beauty. The poet moves from the familiar gaudy delights of life in New Orleans to immerse the reader in the vastly different experience of living no...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Poem folded into a boat and offered to the Bogue Falaya
- Heat lightning in a strange land
- Dispatch from the Florida parishes
- Waterlines
- Funhouse with chainsaw and silent birds
- The beginner's side of the Bogue Falaya
- Graffiti Jesus
- Background acting in a horror movie with my son
- The doomsday prepper's villanelle
- Saved
- The ghosts of Bayou Fatma
- Collect for the days of my youth
- Assault F-150
- Owl with no address
- Red state epistle
- The comet thief
- Birds of 'Merica
- Self-portrait as a voodoo doll
- Saint Tammany Nocturne
- Communion with the rebel flag
- Paper charms
- Lines written after arson and three feet of rain on a river named "Rest among the pines"
- Crossing the great waters
- Keepsakes from the daily route
- My daguerreotype boyfriend
- Dirty south
- Swamp water baptism
- Footnote to my chronicles of amazement
- Debris
- Angel of loss
- The words you need
- Hot sauce shrine
- Parading around
- Poem folded into a crane and left in the hands of Saint Francis
- Full sturgeon moon
- Thunder psalm
- The poet warrior
- Origami for Marie Laveau
- Hurricane saint
- Bogue Falaya psalm
- The healing waters of Abrita Springs
- Ode to new construction on a meth lab burial ground
- Half-acre aubade
- Bogue Falaya death barge.