A Glossary of Chickens : Poems /

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With skillful rhetoric and tempered lyricism, the poems in A Glossary of Chickens explore, in part, the struggle to understand the world through the symbolism of words. Like the hens of the title poem, Gary J. Whitehead's lyrics root around in the earth searching for sustenance, cluck rather th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitehead, Gary J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
American poetry.
POETRY > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Poesie americaine.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Oyster
  • The Wimp
  • Lot's Wife
  • Spice Rack
  • Sourdough
  • Luminescent Jellyfish
  • Somebody Throws It In
  • The Slip
  • Trap Door
  • Ow l Pellet I Show My Students
  • One-Legged Pigeon
  • A Glossary of Chickens
  • Sleeping with My Dog
  • Warren
  • Pastoral
  • Stupid
  • Tied Dog
  • Letter Written in Pokeberry Ink
  • Homeschooled
  • Babo Speaks from Lima
  • Slaveship
  • Melville Passing
  • First Prospective
  • The Coop
  • Death Watches
  • In the Butterfly Conservatory
  • Drosophila melanogaster
  • Uncle
  • Ararat
  • Some Notes
  • Acknowledgments.

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