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A Brief History of Fruit /

"In Kimberly Quiogue Andrews's award-winning full-length debut, A Brief History of Fruit, we are shuttled between the United States and the Philippines in the search for a sense of geographical and racial belonging. Driven by a restless need to interrogate the familial, environmental, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Andrews, Kimberly Quiogue, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 2020.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Friction
  • I.
  • Still Life with Metalworking Shop
  • Ars Persona
  • n: Shield, or Shell Covering
  • Some Unsettling Connections
  • In which I climb a tree, as a child, and find my father's initials about 16 feet off the ground
  • How to Get Into a Poem
  • On Labor
  • Ode to the Letter Q
  • Love's Varietal
  • In a different sky, on a different night
  • Apostrophe
  • II.
  • Did you hear about that video camera that fell out of a plane and landed in a pig trough
  • a map, two points, the line between them
  • The Bath
  • The Arborist
  • Other Deluges
  • How to Read Whitewater in the Mid-Atlantic Region
  • Acquired Taste
  • The More Interesting Story
  • The Hunting Camp
  • III.
  • As in Nowhere, No-One
  • The Minnow
  • In which the photograph has very little to do with the memory associated with it
  • In the Morning, in the Evening
  • Burial at Sea
  • The Result of an Overabundance of Scenery
  • H.O. Andrews & Sons
  • Notes on the Spine, pt. 1
  • Notes on the Spine, pt. 2
  • IV.
  • A Brief History of Fruit
  • The Collapse
  • The Anglo-Saxons Move to Warmer Climes
  • The Dawn, Suffused with Roosters
  • Your Princess Is in Another Castle
  • Some Mirages of the Heat-Addled
  • No one needs another poem about the Second World War
  • Jesus in a Prom Gown
  • In which voluntourism
  • President Trump, thank you for calling, and good evening, it is night over here
  • Pastoral
  • V.
  • Next of Kin
  • The Garden
  • In the Evening, in the Morning
  • Your Inbox. Love, Manila
  • Elegy for One Who Died in the Decade It Took to Write This Poem About Dying
  • I. Contemplating a Career in Ornithology, age 12
  • Fugue in A and D
  • On Cold, On Green
  • Pagmamano
  • In which I learn that I will not be moving back to Pennsylvania
  • In which there are several half-Asian folks at a faculty meeting
  • The Discrete Mathematics of a Mixed-Race Anxiety Sufferer
  • What We Have
  • Mango Mouth
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes