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The Price of Scarlet : Poems /
"A honeycomb long vacated by honeybees still possesses an "echo of the swarm, / a lingering song." Living things are made and make themselves: "My bones came first. / Like long needles, / they knitted muscle / and tendon / and tissue and skin. / Filled themselves / with marrow.&q...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Part I; Nocturne; He Awakens Our Imagination, Our Desire to Transform; A Polarized Scene; Flavor Is the Price of Scarlet; Questioning Diurnal Thinking; The Sound of the Wind in Newport; After the Storm Passes; Some Questions about De-extinction; Medusa Likens Her Gifts to Pseudoscience; On the Violence of Doubt; Pictures at an Exposition; Haibun on the 650-lb Grand Piano Standing Upright in Biscayne Bay; Pythia of the Fields; Mysteries of the Sightline of the Ever-Virgin Mother; When the Crickets Clash.
- The Need for Ornamental Hermits Is on the DeclineThe Homeopath Is a Confectioner; Unsung Elegies Offend; As Winter Ends, We Marvel at the Sun; Part II; The Imaginary Space Where Parallel Lines Intersect; Missed Connection; Alternate Plumage; First Impression as Enchiridion or Score; Intricacies of Our Japanese Puzzle Box; On Social Graces; A Pagan Love Story; The Heart Is No Shapeshifter; Hymn; In the Alternate Universe; It's Hubris Makes Us Think Ourselves Large; A World Made of String; When the Difference Is Almost Nil; Revision; Two Kinds of Conception; Creation Myth.
- Lament, with a Line from TennysonThe Chosen; A Cunning Ecosystem; Corrosives; On the Flood, Grown More Perilous; Sometimes, We Think of Our Place in the World; A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush; Wabi Sabi; A SIngle Mulberry Tree and a Colony of SIlkworms Hanging Like Fruit; Part III; It's Not Glossolalia, ; Vantage; What Returns from Sea; Kintsugi; What Bedtime Stories Become; Divination; We'll know to imagine the horse's snout, the gelatinous head of the octopus; Resonance; A Lesson in Sight; Yugen; Dawn; Not Ruins: Reclamations; Shibui; Minka; Understanding by Comparison.
- Everything Beautiful Has a NameMaterial and Transcendent; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Index of First Lines; New Poetry and Prose Series.