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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Akron, Ohio :
The University of Akron Press,
2020.
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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