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Animal purpose : poems /
In Animal Purpose, Michelle Y. Burke explores the lives of men and women as they stand poised between the desire to love and the compulsion to harm. In one poem, a woman teaches a farmhand the proper way to slaughter a truckload of chickens.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | The Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Contents; One; Today the Horse; Not by Extraordinary Means; First Engagement; Dear One; Flight Path; A Life; Horses in Brooklyn; Pacifisms; Two; On the Prospect of Heaven; Inchworm; Sweet Girl; Saints and Martyrs; Lives of the Artists; Home Economics; Flood Zone; Here; Three; Homing; Four; Puff; Dante Park; Narcissus; Ghost Horse; This Neighborhood; Driving Alone; Upon Giving My Grandmother's Chair to My Brother; Trick of the Light; Zalar's Carousel Horses; Five; Market Day; Nocturne; Last Light; Diameter; Intensity as Violist; Farmer's Daughter; Wishing Stones; Notes