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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pelegrin, Alison (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.